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Farmers can be paid to leave fields fallow because keeping water in the river is more valuable than using it to grow a crop.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Ireland was mistaken, he warned, in relying on a crop prone to failure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Susie isn't convinced tea will ever be a major crop for Scotland.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Four hundred years after monks transformed a patch of marshlands in northwest Italy into rice fields, farmer Alice Cerutti has restored a third to their natural state, prioritising biodiversity over crop yield.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

But, like all farmers, he had to contend with high taxes, high freight rates, and land so worn out that he might spend more for guano than he could get for his cotton crop.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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

Yuma County alone grows more than 175 crops and produces 80% to 90% of the leafy greens consumed in the U.S. during the winter—roughly $1.3 billion in direct crop sales in 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

"You need to diversify the type of value chains and crops that you are currently self-sufficient, and food security becomes now in many countries a matter of national security," he added.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Lloyd adds that the more the party situation crops up throughout their primary school years, the more you can explain the different outcomes to them.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

They planted their crops and toiled in the fields.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer

A cottage industry of charities and consultancies have cropped up to help claimants navigate the benefits claim system, which can be both byzantine and, critics say, gamable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

That still leaves a problem that cropped up time and again over the regular season and again in the NLDS: inconsistency atop the lineup.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

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

This is a beautiful, clean copy, but cropt a little too much in the binding.

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

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

It is herbaceous, sometimes wild, and sometimes cultivated; but always written about as though constituting herbage, and is on one occasion cropt by the horses of Achilles.

From Fishes, Flowers, and Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths and Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, by Anonymous

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

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 Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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

Deutsche Bank recently found the phrase “broad-based” cropping up repeatedly in earnings calls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Another name also cropping up frequently in conversations is another Miliband - Ed's brother David, a former foreign secretary.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026

Off of 1-64 and back on the turnpike, the signs for Capitol Street started cropping up again.

From "Missing May" by Cynthia Rylant