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In 2023, for instance, it banned exports of non-basmati white rice for more than a year after crop damage contributed to rising food prices.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

Sugarcane is highly water-intensive, and uneven monsoon rains and prolonged dry spells in key growing states such as Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Karnataka have affected the crop.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

"The only things that started growing were docks and thistles," said Pawsey, whose entire quinoa crop failed.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Extreme heat and droughts suffered by Europe over the last two months are severely damaging harvests and will likely result in crop failures, the European Commission’s crop monitoring survey said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

The crop to be harvested was summer squash—a small, scallop-edged, pale-green vegetable that grew close to the ground.

From "Lupita Mañana" by Patricia Beatty

"It suddenly, completely dried out," said British farmer John Pawsey, 62, who grows crops in Sussex, in southern England.

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

It is also hoped the tagging can better protect the rare birds from having their nests, on the ground, hidden among crops, inadvertently destroyed.

From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026

Honeybees also pollinate about one-third of the world's food crops, making colony losses a concern for both agricultural productivity and food security.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026

Also members of the scarab family, they consume the leaves of crops and ornamental plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

This proliferation of corn and other crops such as beans, squash, and potatoes required vast networks of cultural and commercial exchange among the peoples of North, Central, and South America.

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

Sanon, who is seen in a cropped top, skirt and a cape, addressed her critics on Tuesday night saying "culture and traditions are in a woman's heart, not in her neckline!"

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

"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

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

We definitely looked different: I was thin and wore my hair cropped very short, practically shaved, per the style for kids back home.

From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana

Time has not cropt the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett

Both to-day and yesterday we observed that the fields on each side of the road were planted with clumsy cropt trees, somewhat like fruit-trees.

From Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. by Sir Archibald Alison

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

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

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

So far, the bad loans are cropping up primarily in healthcare companies, like dental-service provider Affordable Care, or businesses affected by higher oil prices, including plastic-film maker Loparex.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

"But in Western Australia, they're talking about thousands and thousands of mice per hectare," says Henry, mainly through the northern and southern cropping zones.

From BBC ● 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

He was cropping grass in the back pasture not far from Grandpa’s mule.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns