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...The states of Texas, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina and Illinois were also in the running for the factory....
...Blake’s encyclopedic knowledge is based on decades of adventurous gardening at Hunting Brook, his kaleidoscopic 20-acre garden in County Wicklow, Ireland....
...Further west into County Cork, novelist Edith Somerville’s Georgian-style family home, Drishane, is set in 18 acres of gardens and woods in picturesque Castletownshend, overlooking Castlehaven Bay....
...“The climate is cooler, so things grow more slowly and are more flavoursome.”...
...In less than a year, it has gobbled up more than 2m sq ft of space in Manhattan....
...It is situated on 1.4 acres of land, including gardens, wood decking, limestone patios, two outdoor bars, mountain views and multiple dining areas....
...“Why do these people take on more risk and are willing to take less money?” asks Litan....
...Situated in six acres of scrubby farmland at the end of a dirt track, the Makueni Fruit Processing Plant does not look particularly special....
...Kendall County, in Illinois’ 14th congressional district, is the sort of area that will be closely watched by politicians in the coming weeks....
...That is because it is situated in St George’s Hill, a long-established private estate of luxury homes in Weybridge, Surrey, the affluent county south-west of London....
...With wider broadband access in rural areas, more are leaving the city for a life in the mountains....
...“You could almost make the case that we’re worse off than we were at this time last year,” says John Robinson, who grows corn and soyabeans on 1,000 acres in Piatt county, Illinois, one of the most productive...
...Rock County, Wisconsin, which includes Mr Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, has voted 58 per cent in favour of Mr Obama with more than half the votes counted there. 23.48: Mr Obama has crossed the threshold...
...At Mr Hoff’s store, in the heart of a county where farmers usually grow 180 bushels of corn per acre, pure gasoline is by far the biggest seller despite costing most at the pump....
...More than a third of the soyabean crop had the same rating. Nine in 10 acres of corn and soyabean crops are on land suffering drought, the US Department of Agriculture says....
...“Only 38 per cent of Taos County is private land, the rest belongs to the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management, so there is a lot of outdoor activity....
...“About £500,000 will buy you a large semi-detached house in Chichester town centre but the prime property is priced between £2m and £4m and situated in more rural areas,” explains Andrew Richardson of the...
...After farmers finished a first round of planting, “they came in and ordered fertiliser for another field or two. We started to see a hint that there could be more corn acres,” he said....
...Situated in a former contraband warehouse, it was pivotal in establishing the city’s scene in the 1980s....
...However, flats which used to be one-third of Hong Kong’s cheaper prices have more or less caught up....
...“This year I reckon it’ll only be about 50,000 or 60,000.” In Illinois, the average height of corn plants is currently 12 inches, compared with 28 inches last year....
...Many are situated in the exclusive Jumeirah area, overlooking the Arabian Sea....
...After weeks of heavy rains and low temperatures, the US Department of Agriculture said that only 57 per cent of the country’s corn crop is in good or excellent condition, considerably less than the 70 per...
...There is a more significant difference: the world is not flocking to Baghdad or Bullhead City or Riyadh. It is to Phoenix....
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