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grower

[groh-er] / ˈgroʊ ər /
NOUN
raiser
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Investigators posed as blueberry farmers to buy sample plants from the grower.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

“It’s a steady grower, but not outperforming,” J&J Chief Financial Officer Joseph Wolk told The Wall Street Journal at the time.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

In 2021 he became the first grower to showcase a giant pumpkin inside the Great Pavilion at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

But what can an apple grower do about it?

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Berta and the lemon grower took a train from the San Jose Valley.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

Agromillora Nurseries is growing more than a million of the modified trees, and citrus growers have already signed up to buy them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Florida is giving the growers subsidies for those purchases, as part of a $330 million package over two years to revitalize the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 2026

Privately held Driscoll’s, which traces its roots to two enterprising strawberry growers in early 1900s California, became America’s biggest berry producer by working with hundreds of independent growers nationwide.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

At its nursery in Yunnan, the company grows millions of plants under LED lights, which are then distributed to its growers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

By the nineteenth century, when growers turned to the richly planted islands of Hawaii, they brought with them the knowledge of how to run sugar plantations.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson




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