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crop

[krop] / krɒp /




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The new round of government money will help farmers keep up their current spending levels for high-tech crop seeds, fertilizer, equipment and pesticides to continue growing larger crops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

It creates a “supply-side risk that threatens to reduce crop yields,” said Roukaya Ibrahim, chief commodity strategist at BCA Research.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

But leaving part of a crop in the ground comes at a cost.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

These companies are trying to invest more in their own research and development, and being able to pass along price increases for developing new crop seeds is key.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Keeping up with new ideas in farming meant switching his fields to wheat from tobacco, a crop that wears out the soil.

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

That may potentially lead to production disruptions for coffee, cocoa and sugar crops, in particular.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

To encourage the owls, Richard planned to leave some crops unharvested near the woodland where they live.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Total U.S. agricultural revenue in 2025 was about $540 billion, of which crops supplied $238 billion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Stopping issues such as herbicide drift, where farmers spray chemicals onto their land and through wind it moves miles away and damages other crops, would be another advantage, he says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

That well-tended estate was the very opposite of ramshackle, with no failing crops to be found, only daffodils in bright yellow bloom and the swelling green buds of tulips, full of promise.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

It was cropped and adjusted to improve contrast, and lens artifacts were removed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

The trouble that has cropped up is a dispute between the managers of Parton’s ongoing business ventures, She’s Alive, and Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

A union boss for factory workers, he was stocky and well-built with closely cropped brown hair and the hands of someone who had spent the bulk of his 40-plus years in manual labor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

That sentiment cropped up repeatedly in interviews, too: Early guests seemed to believe the museum’s brochure, which notes that the galleries are about the “narrative art” of illustrating stories.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Francie noticed that some already had their summer haircut: hair cropped so short that there were nicks in the scalp where the clippers had bitten too deeply.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

In other words, it is a palpably cropt copy.

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

It is however but too manifest that this precious volume has been cropt in binding--which is in red morocco.

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

Of these, the vellum copy is much damaged in the principal illumination, and is also cropt in the binding.

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

In which they gather'd flowers to fill their flasket, And with fine fingers cropt full feateously The tender stalks on high.

From The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes by Various

The German Bible by Mentelin is perfect; but wretchedly cropt, and dirty even to dinginess.

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

Investors everywhere should understand why the idea of canceling debt keeps cropping up and what it would mean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Stories like this are cropping up more frequently now that major studios are coming to understand that viewers want original stories from new voices.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

The group's discussions see the same patterns keep cropping up.

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

I was pretty sure I knew everything about Constantine—she had one sister and grew up on a share- cropping farm in Corinth, Mississippi.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett


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