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To be fair, this is precisely what the new crop of reform candidates say they want to fix.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

"Farmers need to quickly harvest grains from the fields, not to lose the crop. They need to be able to sell the crop they harvested and reinvest money in the next production cycle."

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

"We've got crop with stress or we've got quality issues. So you will see a smaller crop," O'Malley said.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

The prolonged dry spell is also threatening crop yields across the continent, a European Union drought update said Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Mariya Akilina, from the 46th Guards, flew in the medical services and as a crop duster in civil aviation for twenty years after the war; Nadya Popova and Klava Fomicheva worked as flight instructors.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Revenues from a single pearl fishery could far exceed returns from other commodity crops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

"People are moving into areas where there's enough water to grow crops, and fertile soils, and those are the very areas that the elephants tend to use as well."

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

"It could be unintentional. Maybe people are trying to do some controls of pests on their crops, and that could have been maybe a source."

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Even though no U.S.-grown lettuce or other produce has been linked to the outbreaks, demand from grocers and restaurants is down, causing some farmers to plow their crops back into the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Later, as an ambitious farmer, George Washington relied completely on enslaved labor to grow his crops, catch fish in the nearby Potomac River, clean his house, make his clothes, and put food on his table.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis

"I think we just cropped it a little bit on the sides," he said.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

The image was cropped, enhanced to improve contrast, and corrected to remove lens artifacts.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

A wide river of cropped hair, crisp T-shirts, and adrenaline stretching almost 500 feet to Herndon, where they’re held back by an invisible dam about to burst.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

It's also not yet clear if any lucky fans will get an invite, a theory perhaps wrapped in wishful thinking that cropped up due to Swift inviting devout fans to her home in the past.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026

Then Miss Love trimmed the mustache into a pencil-thin line and cropped his hair down from a mane to short as mine.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

He carries his eares upright, nor seldome ever lets them fall till they be cropt off, and after that, as in despight, will never weare them more.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John

The present copy is severely cropt at top and bottom, but has a good side marginal breadth.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

He sleeps not far from his master now; beneath the field he cropt, he has softly lain him down; and long ere this, grand old Pierre and steed have passed through that grass to glory.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

This is a sound, clean, and beautiful copy; perhaps a little cropt.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Both to-day and yesterday we observed that the fields on each side of the road were planted with clumsy cropt trees, somewhat like fruit-trees.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Alison, Archibald, Sir

As well as cropping up on bar menus, people are popping red wine in the fridge at home.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The problems cropping up in police reports and viral social-media posts range from the concerning to the comical.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The process got more mechanized through the back half of the American Century—out with the cover cropping, in with the monocrop, packed tight as can be.

From Slate ● Apr. 20, 2026

Issues within the deal are already cropping up.

From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026

Taran unsaddled Melyngar, who began cropping the tender grass.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander