To bolster the paramilitaries' case for a political role, the Castanos donated 40,000 highly fertile acres for land reform in 1991.

Isabella liked farming, and loved her fertile acres and opulent orchards.

By most estimates, using nothing but human labor the planet should support roughly one person for every twenty fertile acres.

The United States dismissed this as inadequate because farmers tend to leave the least fertile or marshiest acres to lie fallow under such programs, with little effect on overall output.

It looked to Saint as if Brent Hammond had managed to buy the most fertile acres in the area.

James, prosperous and hearty, greeted them warmly at the old homestead whose fertile acres had well repaid his skillful management.

She had driven over the County with Will, trying not to remember when these thousands of fertile acres had stood green with cotton.

Angola, known as the Farm, is at the end of a 19-mile rural highway, spreading over 18,000 fertile acres on which inmates farm corn, soybeans, wheat and raise cattle.

Will had caught the moment after: life in extremis, the fertile acre become a field of desolation.

Your plate is filled with sliced coconuts, bananas, mangoes and papayas harvested moments earlier from the hotel's 11 fertile acres.