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One third of the acreage is parkland.
These chemicals pose a risk to non-target organisms, especially when applied to vast acreages.
Waterfront acreage appreciates at one and a half times the rate of other property.

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acreage | Business English

acreage
noun[ C or U ]
 MEASURESuk /ˈeɪkərɪdʒ/ us /-kɚ-/
an area of land measured in acres:
expand/increase/reduce an acreageThe company has increased its corn acreage by 10% due to the demand for ethanol.

Examples of acreage

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For all farm categories, current acreage increased from 5 years in the past, and farmers predicted further increases in the future.
In the fifteenth century, when yield ratios were relatively low, the only practical way to generate more income was to accumulate additional acreage.
Consequently, producers may be able to produce at lower costs by spreading fixed costs over greater acreage.
Farmers that produce commodity grain crops are highly invested in this conventional system through equipment and increased acreage costs, and often through tradition and know-how.
Within that contracted sector, cotton has lost much acreage to new crops.
The farmers in our study area, as is common in areas irrigated by electric pumps with free or fixed power cost, use acreage-based water rates.
For similar reasons parents classified as farmers with a very small acreage and with no employees were classified as manual workers.
Farmers received direct payments based on their historic production (acreage and yields) rather than their current production10.
A large part of their acreage was irrigated to ensure their production would meet the quality demands of their buyers.
Some registers have entries about landowning, such as the acreage held and the location of household plots, but many registers do not.
Obviously, non-participating growers thought that the benefits from extending acreage exceeded the gains that would come following restriction.
This is why the annual acreage of damaged crops range in grade 'serious' overlaps with grade 'moderate'.
The situation is exacerbated as maize, the dominant crop by acreage, is planted over a period of three months.
Note the three columns "acreage," "condition," and "production," the three main variables of the agricultural statisticians.
If we compare their respective acreage of productive land, we find that this was related in the proportion of roughly 1:1:2.
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