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Farmers tend to reduce fertilizer usage in response to higher prices, which reduces future crop yields, or reduces acreage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

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

Much of the crop was ruined and would have to be replanted.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

This time, S&P worries that crops weakened by reduced fertilizer use will be less able to tolerate elevated heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

That’s especially true when it comes to coffee, sugar and cocoa, which are among the most weather-sensitive crops in the world.

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

About three-fourths of the water taken from it flows to farmland, about 5 million acres of it, producing alfalfa for cattle as well as lettuce, broccoli and other crops.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

The boys who wanted to play ball and such with Jay played in the open field away from the house and the crops so they didn’t damage anything.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce

“I’m a suburban dude,” he said, smiling from his home in metro Atlanta, his cropped two-toned dreads bobbing as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 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

Wildlife traders often describe animals as needing to be "rehomed", rather than explicitly offering them for sale, and post tightly cropped images of their wares to avoid revealing their locations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

His lips are red, and his orange-red beard is neat, closely cropped.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman

"Tis now the summer of your youth; time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them."

From Faith and Unfaith by Duchess

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

Mr. Klein then placed a clean, but cropt, copy of the first Aldine Pindar before me; adding, that he understood it to be rare.

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

He then placed before me the Catholicon of 1469, by G. Zainer: a cropt, but clean and desirable copy.

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

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 Herman Melville

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

Series eight's youngest contestant, Naya Thorn, who was 23 when she was chosen for the show, feels there are new queens cropping up all over the UK.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 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

Taran unsaddled Melyngar, who began cropping the tender grass.

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander