More and more I am seeing the hectare used by U.S. government agencies
that deal with land management issues and environmental issues. That
feels nice!
I suspect that the reason for small and medium businesses to be more
opposed to metric units is due to two reasons. They are less likely than
large businesses to be involved in foreign trade and they are less
likely to have the staff to deal with training new workers. This is from
the U.S. perspective, of course.
Jim
Gregory Peterson wrote:
>
> The hectare is used regularly in Canada to express the area of forested land (used
>by paper and lumber companies, forest fire sizes, etc.), whereas the acre is still
>exclusively used to express the area of farm land, commercial property, and
>residential property. (aside: What is it about small and medium sized businesses that
>make them so opposed to metric??)
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