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  2. Vergée - Wikipedia

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    The surveying perch measured 22 French feet. In French North America, it was also equal to 25 square perches, but the royal perch of 18 feet was used, yielding a vergée of 8100 square feet (854.7 m 2) In Guernsey, a vergée (Guernésiais: vergie) is 17,640 square feet (1,639 m 2). It is 40 (square) Guernsey perches.

  3. Rod (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The rod, perch, or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool [1] and unit of length of various historical definitions. In British imperial and US customary units, it is defined as 16 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet, equal to exactly 1 ⁄ 320 of a mile, or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 yards (a quarter of a surveyor's chain), and is exactly 5.0292 meters.

  4. Farming, lifeblood of Central California, has changed since ...

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    Kings County had the largest acreage in cotton in 2022 at just under 50,000, followed by about 33,300 acres in Merced County, about 32,600 acres in Fresno County, fewer than 10,000 acres in Kern ...

  5. Rood (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Rood is an English unit of area equal to one quarter of an acre [2] or 10,890 square feet, exactly 1,011.7141056 m 2. A rectangle that is one furlong (i.e., 10 chains , or 40 rods) in length and one rod in width is one rood in area, as is any space comprising 40 perches (a perch being one square rod).

  6. Fast-growing asparagus once flourished on California farms ...

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    At the turn of the 21st century, California growers were farming more than 36,000 acres of asparagus. Now, fewer than 3,000 acres are in production in the state for commercial sale. These are the ...

  7. California wants to harness more than half its land to combat ...

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    To get there, the state seeks to conduct 1.5 million acres of wildfire risk reduction activity per year by 2030; 2 million acres per year by 2038, and 2.5 million acres per year by 2045, most of ...

  8. List of ranchos of California - Wikipedia

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    Land Case No. [note 6] Location [note 7] County [note 8] San Pedro: 1784 Pedro Fages: Juan Jose Dominguez: 48,000 acres (19,425 ha) 273 SD San Pedro: Los Angeles: Los Nietos: 1784 Pedro Fages: Manuel Nieto: 167,000 acres (67,583 ha) [note 9] Long Beach, Downey, Whittier: Los Angeles: San Rafael: 1784 Pedro Fages: José María Verdugo: 36,403 ...

  9. The magical California state park that doesn't allow visitors

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    In 2003, the state of California spent about $3 million to buy 1,800 acres on the north side of the buttes, including an idyllic stretch of emerald called "Peace Valley."