acreage

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Still, he said they worked hard to create boundaries and hold those lines despite the fire’s ballooning acreage, up to 30-foot flames in some areas and the uncooperative weather conditions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026

While all new plantings aren’t solely Golden Hills, the release of the variety around the 2012 accounts for much of the jump and it now makes up about half of the acreage, Vasquez said.

From Salon • May 6, 2026

Department of Agriculture expects corn acreage to decrease and soybean acreage to increase in 2026.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

It’s “an old-fashioned land grab,” Bob Fryklund, S&P Global’s chief upstream energy strategist, said of the industry’s rush to acquire new acreage.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

Sometimes the planters wanted nothing more than to make a humble living, and then there were men and women who wanted to own the world, as if it were a matter of the proper acreage.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead