acre

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The new trees number in the thousands — at least 4,000 per acre or as many as 20,000, depending on who is counting.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

The business has since announced a price hike, which he fears will raise his fertiliser bill by roughly $100 per acre and wipe out his chance of making any profit on this year's crop.

From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026

This was the type of place where people were polite but mostly kept to themselves, Nathan said, adding that each house was set on an insulated plot of around an acre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

An acre of avocados generates between $12,000 and $15,000 in profits a year, according to Adam Peck, chief investment officer at Milwaukee-based Riverwater Partners.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 7, 2026

Hawaiian labor corvees built elaborate irrigation systems for taro fields yielding up to 24 tons per acre, the highest crop yields in all of Polynesia.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond