cash crop

Example Sentences

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Robert Addae, who has been farming the cash crop for 14 years, says this is not enough.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

Canadian officials traveled to China last year to persuade Beijing to remove hefty tariffs on Canadian canola, or rapeseed, which is a major cash crop for farmers in western Canada.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Today, the Salinas Valley’s biggest cash crop is strawberries, accounting for more than 20% of Monterey County’s $4.9-billion annual production value from agriculture.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

Corn was a cash crop at Mount Vernon, and the estate had a successful mill that could process up to 8,000 pounds of flour and cornmeal in one day.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2024

John Rolfe, famed for his role in making tobacco a successful cash crop in Virginia and later marrying the woman known as Pocahontas, recorded that “20 and odd” Africans were brought to the settlement.

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