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The total apple haul is forecast to drop 17.9 percent from last year's exceptionally large crop, and be down 5.4 percent compared to the average harvest over the past decade.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

He will have a rebuild job to do, but there's no reason to believe that Scotland cannot build on Clarke's legacy with a good crop of younger players.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

That’s down 5 million bushels from the agency’s projection last month, and remains the smallest wheat crop grown in the U.S. since 1970.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

“We were low on submissions,” says Angel Gamboa Bryant, nominated for “The Upshaws,” of this year’s crop.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Then the teeth of a dragon must be cast into the furrows, like seed-corn—which would spring up at once into a crop of armed men.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

About three-fourths of the water that’s taken out is used for agriculture, growing alfalfa for cattle as well as lettuce, broccoli and other crops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

In an interview with AFP, she noted that few adult male elephants had died, even though they are the ones most likely to raid crops.

From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026

If he was to irrigate all his crops to keep them alive, the costs would be so high his cauliflowers, spuds and carrots would be far pricier than supermarket alternatives.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Corn is an English word that has been used to describe | grain crops including wheat and oats.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

"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

Interestingly these details cropped up in England's opening goal against Mexico.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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

Now and then her name cropped up in their Arabic like a little window.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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

The present is a beautiful, white, sound copy, and yet probably somewhat cropt.

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

The orphan of Wood-edge will wreath it of blossoms cropt before the sun hath melted the dew on leaf or petal.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by John Wilson

Yet good Gentlemen, looke well about you, and remember how Tiberius plaid the Fox with the Senate of Rome, and how Fabius Maximus cropt his ears for his cunning.

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

Another early Pliny- -UPON VELLUM: very fine, undoubtedly; but somewhat cropt, as the encroachment upon the arms, at the bottom of the first illuminated page, evidently proves.

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

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

There's another place I see this undue certainty cropping up: the fraught debate over whether we can continue listening to the music, or watching the films, of artists who have done bad things.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Just watching the sheep cropping on the hillsides.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz