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...Idlewild sits on a 2,700-acre site in the midst of a forest of hardwoods and towering red pines in rural western Michigan. It contains two of the few spring-fed lakes in the county....
...The top rate of $150 an acre was concentrated in the southern and southwestern states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona....
...London land values have been volatile but Earl's Court was written down from £45m per acre at its peak to £23.5m per acre, said Stifel....
...If crop revenue from a single county drops too far below its historical average, farmers in that county can get 85 per cent of the difference....
...According to the Peterson Institute in Washington DC, a major disruption in soyabean exports could lead to job losses of more than 20 per cent in Mississippi County in Missouri, which will hold one of the...
...A feel of the Old West remains in Placerville’s main street to this day and, strange to say, Placerville Hardware, “the oldest hardware store west of the Mississippi,” is well worth a visit....
...Who Dielmann Sotheby’s International Realty, dielmannsothebysrealty.com, tel: +1 314 725 0009 Castlehyde, Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland, €20m Where On the banks of the river Blackwater, which is renowned...
..., priced at between £400,000 and £425,00....
...(Financial Times) Sinopec buys US shale assets at two-thirds discount: Chinese company “will take a 50 percent interest in 850,000 acres Chesapeake controls in the Mississippi Lime formation, the companies...
...Joe Donnelly has defeated Richard Mourdock in Indiana. Also in the Hoosier state, Vigo County (see 19.04), has tallied all its votes....
...▲ 14310 Bigelow Road, Fort Myers, FL, $2,874,000 Where: On the west coast of Florida, south of Tampa, in the commercial centre of Lee County on the shore of the Caloosahatchee River....
...“A lot of this pastureland was marginal land anyway, so they’re not going to raise huge yields,” says Del Ficke, who farms 1,800 acres in Nebraska state....
...Lester Vincent, a 71-year-old who lost all his crops and his home in 1993, says he still has about 600 acres of his 1,500-acre farm left to plant and adds that he has lost another 150 acres this year to...
...When Jafza bought 1,300 acres of land in the area in October, its first acquisition in the US, the company said it planned to invest about $600m (£306m, €406m) to create a world-class logistics and business...
...The example of federalism in action most relevant to Katrina was the Mississippi flood of 1927. The flood covered whole states. Waters raging up to 100 feet high drove 1.5m illion from their homes....
...It first arose in 1865, when General William Sherman, conqueror of Atlanta, issued Special Field Orders No. 15, which extended a gift of 40 acres to freed slaves....
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