Well, I know that my farm is 100 ha in area. That's a square kilometer.
I've used this figure and have discussed hectares in my weekly columns
in the local newspaper of record (The Mountain View).* As I recall, we
determined that the high school parking lot was 0.5 ha in size. So, I
would hope that many of the residents of Van Buren County TN are at
least slightly conversant with hectares.
We live east of McMinnville TN (which is in Warren County). On the west
side of McMinnville is a community called Morrison. In Morrison is an
automotive parts supplier called Yorozu Automotive Tennessee. Their web
page gives the size of their land area and their building in square
meters only. Knowing how many square meters are in a hectare, I can
easily see that their land area is just under 25 ha, or about one-fourth
of the size of my farm.
http://www.yorozu-corp.co.jp/en/point/yat.htm
Jim
* I'm taking a temporary break in the writing of this column.
Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
Norman,
Who in the US would know what 2500 hectares is? I don't even know what
6180 acres is. I would prefer it if they used square miles or kilos.
Jerry
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*From:* Norman & Nancy Werling <[email protected]>
*To:* U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
*Sent:* Friday, January 23, 2009 9:50:06 AM
*Subject:* [USMA:42415] An Associated Press article in today's Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
USMA list members,
Spanish energy company Acciona Energia will build a wind farm in Mexico
which will be the largest in Latin America.
The article was written by Mark Stevenson of Associated Press. It
states that the wind farm will be 6180 acres. When converted back
to hectares that would have been 2500 hectares. Don't you agree that
Mark Stevenson was required to convert those 2500 hectares to 6180 acres
by the Associated Press, even had he wanted to report using the metric
measure?
Norm Werling
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