40 Quotes About Acre

  • Author Thomas McDonald
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    I killed my first mule at 10. Plowed him to death. The sad part is, after the mule died, I had an acre and a half to do, and I had to pull the plow my own self.

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  • Author Alexandra Paul
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    Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat.

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  • Author Brian Peterson
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    One acre of land anyway it would be several thousand dollars ... depending on the crop. Land agents will personally visit every landowner with a package of information about the project, discuss it with the landowner and follow up at a future date, likely sometime in 2006.

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  • Author Dennis Smith
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    It all starts with the price of the land. Show me another market that is selling land for $700,000 an acre that's not looking at the ocean. We don't have enough, and it's priced too high.

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  • Author F. Stone
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    This was born out of necessity, ... We wanted to have a certain size property and we only had so much land to work with. We realized we had to put the parking underground, so we came up with a plan and put it in place. When you look at the cost of an acre of land on the Strip, you need to make your best usage of that land.

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  • Author Joel Salatin
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    We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.

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  • Author Robert Silverberg
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    I'm up at 5:30 or 6, but not willingly. By 8:30, I'm in my home office. I take a swim in the afternoon, and I garden. We have about an acre of land.

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  • Author Brian Thompson
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    This is one of the strongest auctions we've seen. It sold in the top end of the trading range for Class A (the most productive) soils. There is a good supply of Class A land that typically sells for $4,100 to $6,000 per acre depending on size, location and quality.

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