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Lab-grown algae have been shown to generate up to 30 times more oil per acre than other plants used to make biofuels, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. And farming algae in pools doesn't take up valuable agricultural land, Hauge said. (National Geographic)
More » Jan 23, 2010
Lowly algae, , are actually a boon for biofuels: Lab-grown algae can generate up to 30 times more oil per acre than other plants used to make the sustainable fuel, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Farming algae doesn't take up valuable agricultural land, and the resulting product can be easily exported, according to the Bellona Foundation's Hauge. (National Geographic)
Hot property: Hangover' actor has new hangout Jan 23, 2010
The traditional-style house Rappaport just sold was designed by Waldo Fernandez, sits on nearly three-quarters of an acre and includes eight bedrooms and 9 1/2 bathrooms in 15,000 square feet ... 4 acres of rolling lawns with a lake, waterfalls, a swimming pool and grotto, gardens and a tennis court ... Update: Singer-actress Cher has auctioned her newly built home on three-quarters of an acre in the Hualalai Resort in Hawaii for $8. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Peoria site spotlights solar potential Jan 23, 2010
Seven to eight dishes per acre. Most read. (AZCentral -- Business)
GEORGE L. STRASSER: PG&E's outrageous electricity rates Jan 23, 2010
At present, a 1,000-acre PV Solar Farm on irrigated agricultural land requires an unclassified conditional use permit, and an EIR. The time and cost to get approval is estimated to be three years and $300,000 ... The electricity generated per acre is worth $50,000 to $100,000 per year. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
'09 a lousy year for dairy farmers Jan 22, 2010
While 2009 was a bad year for agriculture in Wisconsin, the corn crop was one of the few bright spots, with a record yield in the state of 153 bushes per acre ... While some corn remains in Wisconsin fields, the forecast is at 423 million bushels, up by 29 million bushels, and a record yield of 153 bushels per acre. (Menomonie Dunn County News, WI)
DLF nixes mall plans, offloads Bangalore property Jan 22, 2010
BANGALORE: DLF has sold its 15-acre property in a posh Bangalore suburb after plunging footfalls and poor margins nixed the companys plans for a large-scale mall in the locality ... DLF has other projects in Karnataka such as a township in Bidadi (9,000 acre), development project in Jigani industrial area (100 acre), two hotels in Mysore (around 5 acre) and a retail mall in Whitefield (around 15 acre) ... The DLF Garden City, DLFs first residential project in Chennai, is a 53-acre township... (India Times)
Mini-orchard in your yard Jan 22, 2010
com Jacqui Rust and Peter Apers maintain their half acre garden themselves with a variety of fruit trees, berries include strawberries, black and red currents, blueberries and loganberries. Also in the backyard, seating areas by a sand-bottom creek with shade provided by the overhead canopy of trees and a small fire pit and the soothing sound of the creek's running water at their Duluth home. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Home & Garden)
Would you support a dog park? Jan 21, 2010
1/3 to 1/2 acre size is good. 1 to 2 acres are ideal ... I would love to have a dog park for my female dog to run in even tho I have a 1/2 acre lot-but the neighborhood is not the easiest to walk dogs in due to other neighbors that also have dogs. (Columbus Telegram, NE)
OUR VIEW: Coles County sales tax 'swap' worth a try Jan 21, 2010
eugene wrote on Jan 20, 2010 8:14 PM:" Why don't the assessors office just be honest and admit that there are many folks properties that aren't correctly assessed and haven't been for quite some time.We have people right around Charleston that live in a home with an acre or two that are classified as a farm with buildings,with no farming going on,how is this ? But the guy next door his property is classified as improved land with buildings,paying the higher tax.But I know the answer I'll get... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Wastewater-to-crops idea bubbling up Jan 19, 2010
Crops like cotton that aren't consumed by humans soak up the treated water -- 3,300 acre-feet of it a year, according to Lou Camara, Hanford public works director. That's out of 5,400 acre-feet of wastewater the city treats annually ... An acre-foot is enough to satisfy an average household for a year, or enough to keep approximately one-third of an acre of ground in crop production, Camara said. (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
Woodstock Music Festival: Forty Yea... Jan 19, 2010
The Woodstock Music and Art Festival was a rock festival held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969. It is arguably and very widely viewed as the most famous rock festival ever held. (Suite101.com)
Turner's bid for park bison stokes wildlife debate Jan 18, 2010
He's shielded more than 150,000 acres from development, but in the process put several prized hunting grounds off limits to the public ... That includes an attempt by the American Prairie Foundation to buy up vast swaths of land in eastern Montana ranches and create a 3 million acre reserve for bison and other wildlife. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
6 Reasons Why Algae Holds Promise a... Jan 18, 2010
In fact, they claim that to get the job done would require only 15,000 square miles or four and one-half million acres of land ... Conservatively, algae output per acre is currently 150 times that of corn, but algae is theoretically capable of producing 10 times that amount. (Suite101.com)
ARS studies rotations under irrigation, greenhouse gas emissions (56) Jan 18, 2010
With the rotations, they are also conducting several other studies of interest to growers in the region, including studies on dryland acres ... Their studies have shown that producers can reduce fertilizer applications on sugarbeet planting, which when combined with strip-till, can save about 100 an acre. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Research farm utilizes no-till farming system to stay profitable Jan 17, 2010
In Minnesota, where tillage is practicved more, he said, it takes slightly under 10 gallons of diesel fuel an acre to do all their tillage, seeding and harvest ... A study they did showed continuous corn brought 203 bushels/acre while a corn/soybean rotation brought 217 bushels/acre ... A corn, corn, soybean, wheat, soybean rotation brought 256 bushels and a corn, corn, soybean, soybean, wheat and wheat rotation brought 232 bushels/acre. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
Farmers Need to Be Involved With Local Farmland Preservation Planning (2) Jan 17, 2010
Under the new program, the tax credit goes from income-based to a per-acre credit while maintaining cross compliance with soil and water standards. Credits are paid as follows: 1) 5 per acre credit for agreements in areas not zoned and in an Agriculture Enterprise Area (AEA) ... 50 per acre in areas zoned; 3) 10 per acre in areas zoned, with an agreement within an AEA.. (Agri-View, WI)
South Dakota is the land of honey - when it rains (2) Jan 17, 2010
Without bees, almond fields would yield about 200 pounds of shriveled almonds per acre. With bees, they produce 2,000 to 3,000 pounds per acre. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
Ag Tech: Online calculator helps determine environmental impact of farming (2) Jan 17, 2010
Over the last 20 years, soybean farmers have reduced irrigated water and energy use, as well as carbon emissions on a per acre basis. The low population in rural areas can make it difficult to understand the need for efficiency. (Sioux Falls Tri-State Neighbor, SD)
BlackRock's Graham Birch Quits Fund Management to Run Dairy Farm in Dorset Jan 17, 2010 South Dakota surpasses all corn production projections Jan 15, 2010 USDA reports U.S., Nebraska, Kansas farmers shatter corn production records Jan 14, 2010 Let's look at facts Jan 14, 2010 Let's farm the sun Jan 14, 2010 Firmly Entrenched Jan 14, 2010 Rwandan panel says army shot down president's jet Jan 13, 2010 Borneo project aims to save forest, boost livelihoods Jan 12, 2010 Cost to Plant Corn Next Year $40 Higher Per Acre (9) Jan 11, 2010 Costs For Growing 2010 Crops Less Than This Year’s? (13) Jan 11, 2010 Technology helps farmers fertilize, plant corn more precisely Jan 10, 2010 Readers tell us why they stand by their American-made cars Jan 10, 2010 Letters for Wednesday, January 6, 2010 Jan 10, 2010 Benefits of making a list Jan 10, 2010 Wheat yields in four-state region excellent; markets slow (23) Jan 10, 2010 Obituaries » Jan 10, 2010 - Fallowing cited as reason for honey production decline Jan 10, 2010 Merschman Seeds, Monsanto outline plan to double yields (5) Jan 10, 2010
The 49-year-old will now run his 2,300- acre farm in Dorset full time. I want to take a break from the City, Birch said by phone today, referring to Londons financial district. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Tree-rules revamp goes back to city Jan 15, 2010
That would mean preserving trees or planting new ones at a rate of 36 saplings per acre ... However, master-planned projects larger than 50 acres should be able to meet the revised ordinance, the study found, if all open space and greenway trails can be counted toward the requirements. (Charlotte Business Journal, NC)
Even so, to date, South Dakota farmers produced 23 percent more corn on just 7 percent additional acres in 2009, proving that efficiencies in production outpace resource requirements by more than three times ... The final 2009 yield, at 153 bushels per acre, is up 3 bushels from November 2009 and up 20 bushels from 2008, setting a new record high ... 7 million acres of grain for 2009, up 7 percent from 2008. (Madison Daily Leader, SD)
Despite poor planting conditions, a cool, wet growing season, and an abysmal harvest that still sees corn standing in fields, American farmers shattered records for both yield per acre and total production ... 2 bushels of corn per acres, up from its previous estimate of 162 ... Notably, average yields are more than 11 bushels per acre higher (7 percent) than last year's average yield. (Midwest Bulls Eye, NE)
He should go to Trinity and Humboldt counties, where salmon fishermen havent had a commercial season for three years while their water is shipped to the west side to be used to grow subsidized cotton or sold to Los Angeles for $5,000 an acre foot. The California Correctional Peace Officers Association got raises by supporting law and order Republican candidates and incumbents, not liberals. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
On 5,000-acres, Diener s Red Rock Ranch grows an array of row crops, using innovative approaches to land, water and wildlife management ... At present, a 1,000-acre PV Solar Farm on irrigated agricultural land requires an unclassified conditional use permit, and an EIR. The time and cost to get approval is estimated to be three years and $300,000 ... The electricity generated per acre is worth $50,000 to $100,000 per year. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
The district delivers water to 1,250 farms covering 26,000 acres along the west side of Southern Pacific Railroad tracks between Lindsay and Strathmore ... As one of the founding districts, Lindmore was able to lower the cost of water by 20 per acre foot for district members ... Luallen continues to live on his home place and still has 10 acres of oranges. (The Exeter Sun, CA)
"The final frontier for finding alpha" Susan Payne, a red-haired British woman, is the CEO of the largest land fund in southern Africa, which currently includes 150,000 hectares (370,000 acres), mainly in South Africa, Zambia and Mozambique ... Payne's land fund pays $350 to $500 per hectare ($140 to $200 per acre) in Zambia, about one-tenth the price of land in Argentina or the United States. (Salon)
The oval-shaped 217,000 ha (542,500 acre) project nestles between two rivers in central Kalimantan on Borneo island, which has already lost about half its forest cover to logging for timber, clearing for palm oil plantations and mining. But Jakarta-based PT Rimba Makmur Utama is betting on a global market in selling carbon offsets to investors seeking projects that preserve and rehabilitate forests, which lock away carbon dioxide in the fight against climate change. (AlertNet)
Cost to Plant Corn Next Year 40 Higher Per Acre Agri-View: Crop News ... Cost to Plant Corn Next Year 40 Higher Per Acre ... Non-land costs are projected to average 370 an acre for corn and around 220 for soybeans, calculates Gary Schnitkey, University of Illinois ag economist. (Agri-View, WI)
These Purdue analysts note that some producers may have spent 200 an acre or more to fertilize their 09 corn crop, depending on when they bought their fertilizer ... Yet allowing for discounts and adjusting for seeding rates, seed budgets for 2010 will be in the 75 to 95 per acre range for many cornfields, and about 50 per acre for soybeans similar to those of 2009, report Erickson, Miller and Dobbins ... They say that the dramatic increases in GMO acres (of corn and beans) appear to be leveling... (Agri-View, WI)
When preplant UAN exceeds 50 pounds per acre, it is safer to plant corn at least 4 to 5 inches to the side. This is another area where automatic guidance gives an advantage because it offers precisely parallel planting abilities. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
" The U.S. auto industry was always on the leading edge of America's technological and economic progress. Whether it was the automatic transmission or anti-lock brakes, it was usually American automakers that developed them. Only in the late 1970s and 1980s did the Big 3feel threatened as gas shortages sent customers to fuel-efficient Japanese imports. "Japan rethought the whole approach," says Leslie Kendall, curator of the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. "You didn't have to have an... (USA Today -- Autos)
docSmith wrote on Jan 6, 2010 5:53 PM:" Thank You "PayBack" I appreciate your prayers. Some one said My home was over priced, so we are reducing it. But One must know that it is a 4 ,, 3 ba. r. 1/4 acre w/ 30* ocean view that is undevelopable and will stay that way . It also has a full house Generac Generator that comes on instantly whenever needed. We live in a wonderful neighborhood with a lot of very nice people , both local and Mainlanders. Two years ago it would have been worth at least... (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Even though spring planted crops cannot be planted yet or reported yet, producers who have established Conservation Reserve Program practices on their acreage may report those acres now to the FSA Office. Producers who enrolled their farms into the ACRE Program last year have until July 15 to certify their crop production for 2009 and for 2008 through 2004 ... Producers who will be planting fruits or vegetables on farms participating in the DCP or ACRE programs need to discuss fruit and... (Princeton Bureau County Republican, IL)
There was a lot of acres in that part of the country that didn't get harvested last year, he said ... - Soil tests on at least 1,500 acres in the trade area indicate the nitrogen has been depleted ... Crop nutrients are probably going to get in that 50 an acre range, he said. (Great Falls Prairie Star, MT)
She grew up on Canter Road in a house with an acre of land in back. "She rode bareback all over Buckhead," said James B. Jordan, her husband of 12 and a half years. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Fallowed fields deprive honeybees of thousands of acres worth of potential pollen and nectar, he said ... The thousands of acres of fallowed fields represent pollen and nectar that bees could use to make excess honey, Ashurst said ... jcheng wrote on Jan 3, 2010 11:04 AM:" So let me make sure I have this right. First, the Federal Government (us) spends hundreds of millions of dollars to dam and maintain the dams on the Colorado River. Then it transfers the water to IID who sells it to the... (El Centro Imperial Valley Press, CA)
In a controlled environment like they have to test technologies at the Monsanto labs, it's easy to get 300 bushel per acre because the conditions are perfect. There are no insects, drought or too much rain to worry about. (Fort Madison Daily Democrat, IO)
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