crop
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Because crops take months to reach harvest, and growing seasons differ by region and by crop, El Niño’s supply impact typically occurs with a lag of about 16 months, according to Ibrahim.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026
But leaving part of a crop in the ground comes at a cost.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Think of Bayer and Vylor, which sell novel crop seeds to farmers that can withstand various insecticides and herbicides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
Morton explained that many of the larger blazes began as deliberately set fires used for land management, such as removing shrubs from grazing land or clearing crop residue from fields.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
We ended up at school with the cream of the American crop, the Hoover girl and the Hanes twins and the Scott girls and the Reese kid who got incredible care packages once a week.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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Again, what this means for future crops is yet to be seen.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
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
Rather, the lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than to crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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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
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
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
She’s just as warm and soft as I remember, but her cropped hair is now entirely gray.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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Mentelin's German Bible; somewhat cropt, and in its second binding, but sound and perfect.
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
This is a cropt and soiled, but upon the whole, a desirable copy: it is bound in red morocco, and was formerly Prince Eugene's.
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
Lovelass, speaking of Morecraft, the usurer, says: 'He had a bastard, his own toward issue, whipt and thin cropt, for washing out the rose in three farthings to make them pence.'
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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
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
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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