Famous Quotes & Sayings

At $1 million an acre (the going price for land), you are not going to buy a whole lot for that around here.

Mark Wilson

Currently, the financial returns aren't that great, but at that rate a farmer with 1,000 acres of no-till could earn $1,000 annually for merely continuing his established practices.

And they don't need Florida's votes in the next election either. I cannot underestimate the importance of that. They want to lease millions of acres off Florida's coast.

There's room for another half a million acre feet of water, a lot of water.

There's no net gain in farmland. No matter how you do the math, we will still lose farmland. We're still losing 700 acres of farm ground.

There's no hard and fast rule, but a basic rule of thumb is that it takes a thousand acres to justify owning a combine.

Is it always economical to shoot for maximum yield? Research has shown that it's not. It may take the same amount of nitrogen to reach 179 bushels per acre as it does to only reach 170 bushels per acre. It's impossible to determine at what point the nitrogen level is reached to where it is no longer a benefit to gain more yield without a nitrogen rate trial in every field.

The women had an outstanding day in placing second at the McPherson Invitational on a windy day. Six out of seven runners improved their times from last week's meet. Overall, the women ran about a minute faster on the Rolling Acres course compared to a year ago.

We went for a late night walk around the grounds and lake; it was so tranquil and silent, ... The inn itself is a privilege to stay in. Each room is uniquely decorated and named after a person of great inspiration to George. There is a great stone fireplace were you can sit up late and drink and talk. But my favorite part of the whole Ranch has to be the atmosphere. Everyone you meet is happy to be there, and the views are amazing. The Ranch is possibly one of the most serene, beautiful places I've ever been to. Thousands of acres of rolling grass hills, forest, lakes and wildlife. Then you have these amazing state-of-the-art buildings. Big Rock Ranch is also a stunning building like an enormous Japanese ski lodge. What a place to work; the toy-licensing department is where I can see my self one day!

We're very hopeful this is the bear. It's basically the same size bear. There's truly not that many bears in the 5,000 acres we have closed off.

Very shortly we anticipate a big announcement...residential, commercial, office space that will encompass several hundred acres east of I-90. We're very excited about it.

These 80 acres were planted in winter rye. The seed germinated and the plants grew three or four inches then died.

These 60 acres will be regenerated with houses, sports facilities and leisure facilities as well as a world-class stadium.

David Lopez

We are very pleased and proud to be in this community. Our concern is that Squatty is too small (about 4,700 square-feet). We need about 10 acres to build the 50,000-square-foot facility and parking area that we are budgeted for. This is a tremendous opportunity.

We are very park-poor in the township. These are very important and welcome acres of green space even though this is more development.

We currently have 30 acres used for landfill. We don't foresee expansion in the near future. It's doubtful.

Jerry Jones

We could probably put together ... close to 1,700 acres if the party wanted to buy the whole available land.

Larry Klayman

The state overreached. They wanted the other 5.7 acres and they coerced my client, Mr. Hering, into selling it to them by saying that he wasn't going to get a right-of-way to get to those acres.

The significance of this 5.8 acres that we own, among the 640 acres that we also own, is it does not have to be held open for public use. It can be privately held, privately occupied.

The thing that originally attracted us to this development was the park on the Guadalupe River. It's 60 acres left in its natural state.

When it comes to horses, we need lots of acres and not many horses, but with these acres it would seem to be too small for the task at hand.

We estimate it will take 150,000 to 200,000 acres to meet the offset.

James Wade

We had a little bit of rain to come in. It helped for about two days. And now we're back to the way we were two days...you know, last week we were chasing fires, and all the fires been 100 acres plus. The same thing's happening now. It just takes a little spark, and the fire runs and it's hard to catch it.

Ben Johnson

We've got speculators calling us -- mostly from California and the Northeast -- who say, 'We'll just send crews out there and start building hundreds of homes,' There's a lot of interest in securing a hundred to a thousand acres of land.

We've lost numerous other structures, five vehicles and tens of thousands of acres of land.

We're talking about 1,100 deer in 90,000 acres of land. We just don't think the overpopulation problem is so severe that it requires this response.

Robert Grosseteste

Know that each acre of fallow ought to support yearly two sheep at the least, then a hundred acres of fallow can support two hundred sheep, two hundred acres, four hundred sheep and so on.

We have almost 80 acres on the south side, to park aircraft on, and during the season it's packed full, ... They may be sitting there 20, 30 or 40 minutes waiting to be released by the central tower.

We could eventually lose so many acres that the U.S. could lose markets and its standing as a reliable supplier.

We have thousands of acres of crop loss. This is a freeze that left its mark.

Donald Bren

When I first joined the Irvine Company, I realized that less than 11,000 acres were designated as open space in the original master plan, and that just didn't seem adequate to me. So, I began the lengthy process working with public and community organizations to add more open space.

We have an indoor covered arena, an outdoor arena, 200 acres of trails and 90 acres of lush pasture. We're open to the public for boarding, (horse) training and teaching people how to ride. We can stable 20 horses." ()

I would love to have an animal sanctuary in Franklin County. We're looking for someone who could donate the land. Five or 10 acres would be enough.