crop
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He said grapes are like any other Irish crop "everything really depends on the weather".
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
It is one of several measures that he is taking in a bid to ensure his small vineyard produces a decent crop despite a historically hot summer and low rainfall.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The series ended last year and Netflix is rolling out a new crop of YA shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Indigenous Andean communities were the first to domesticate the starch-rich crop, turning it into a dietary staple long before potatoes spread around the world.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
If he declined Trip’s offer, Frank figured he would offend the guy and end up as sorghum or wheat or some other cash crop.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
Options include “more efficient irrigation, less water-intensive crops and short-term fallowing of fields,” according to Michael Cohen, a senior fellow at the Pacific Institute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Delivering droplets onto the parched crops requires meticulous preparation to identify suitable clouds.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Millions of pounds of paraquat pesticide are sprayed annually on almonds, grapes, cotton and other crops, primarily in the San Joaquin Valley.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026
Massive corn and soybean crops have made livestock feed—the top expense when raising a chicken—cheap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
He figured we didn’t have enough to seed the crops next year or pay interest on the loan from the bank to cover the money he wasn’t able to pay back.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
"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
Interestingly these details cropped up in England's opening goal against Mexico.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 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
His black hair was cropped close, and he had the most elegant Persian nose of anyone I had ever met.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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
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
Pride has a fall, they say: and I was proud— Proud as a thistle; and a donkey’s cropt The thistle’s prickly pride.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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
It has, however, been bound in wretched taste, some fifty years ago, and is a good deal cropt in the binding.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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
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
She talked about finishing college and going to law school, but distractions kept cropping up.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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