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  2. Babcock Ranch, Florida - Wikipedia

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    278018 [ 1 ] Website. babcockranch.com. Babcock Ranch is a planned community located in southeastern Charlotte County and northeastern Lee County, Florida, consisting of approximately 17,000 acres (6,900 ha). [ 2 ] The community was named after Edward Vose Babcock, a lumber baron and former mayor of Pittsburgh, who purchased the land in 1914.

  3. Agricultural land - Wikipedia

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    Share of land area used for agriculture, OWID. Agricultural land is typically land devoted to agriculture, [1] the systematic and controlled use of other forms of life —particularly the rearing of livestock and production of crops —to produce food for humans. [2][3] It is generally synonymous with both farmland or cropland, as well as ...

  4. Land banking - Wikipedia

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    Syracuse Land Bank property, Syracuse, New York Land banking is the practice of aggregating parcels of land for future sale or development.. While in many countries land banking may refer to various private real estate investment schemes, in the United States it refers to the establishment of quasi-governmental county or municipal authorities tasked with managing an inventory of surplus land.

  5. Land development - Wikipedia

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    Land development is the alteration of landscape in any number of ways such as: Changing landforms from a natural or semi-natural state for a purpose such as agriculture or housing. Subdividing real estate into lots, typically for the purpose of building homes.

  6. Section (United States land surveying) - Wikipedia

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    The primary grid pattern is of quarter sections (1⁄2 mi × 1⁄2 mi (800 m × 800 m)). In U.S. land surveying under the Public Land Survey System (PLSS), a section is an area nominally one square mile (2.6 square kilometers), containing 640 acres (260 hectares), with 36 sections making up one survey township on a rectangular grid. [1]

  7. Agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    shows a tractor plowing a crop field. Worker overseeing cotton gin, ca. 1940s. Agriculture is a major industry in the United States, which is a net exporter of food. [1] As of the 2017 census of agriculture, there were 2.04 million farms, covering an area of 900 million acres (1,400,000 sq mi), an average of 441 acres (178 hectares) per farm.

  8. Prime farmland - Wikipedia

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    Prime farmland. Prime farmland in 1997. Prime farmland is a designation assigned by U.S. Department of Agriculture defining land that has the best combination of physical and chemical characteristics for producing food, feed, forage, fiber, and oilseed crops and is also available for these land uses. [1]

  9. Latifundium - Wikipedia

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    Latifundium. A latifundium (Latin: latus, "spacious", and fundus, "farm", "estate") [1] was originally the term used by ancient Romans for great landed estates specialising in agriculture destined for sale: grain, olive oil, or wine. They were characteristic of Magna Graecia and Sicily, Egypt, Northwest Africa and Hispania Baetica.

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