| 单词 | crop |
| 释义 | crop (krɒp ) Word forms: crops , cropping , cropped 1. countable noun B1+ Crops are plants such as wheat and potatoes that are grown in large quantities for food. Rice farmers here still plant and harvest their crops by hand. The main crop is wheat and this is grown even on the very steep slopes. 2. See also cash crop 3. countable noun B1+ The plants or fruits that are collected at harvest time are referred to as a crop. Each year it produces a fine crop of fruit. [+ of] This year's corn crop should be about 8 percent more than last year. In the Middle Ages, years of crop failure were always followed by terrible disease. 4. singular noun You can refer to a group of people or things that have appeared together as a crop of people or things. [informal] The present crop of books and documentaries about Marilyn Monroe exploit the thirtieth anniversary of her death. [+ of] Some of this year's crop of graduates are on a fast-track recruitment scheme. Synonyms: batch, set, lot, pack 5. verb When a plant crops, it produces fruits or parts which people want. Although these vegetables adapt well to our temperate climate, they tend to crop poorly. [VERB] 6. verb When you crop something that you have planted, you collect the fruits or parts that you want from it. I started cropping my beans in July. [VERB noun] Synonyms: harvest, pick, collect, gather 7. verb When an animal such as a cow or horse crops leaves or plants, it eats them. I let the horse drop his head to crop the spring grass. [VERB noun] Synonyms: graze, eat, browse, feed on 8. verb To crop someone's hair means to cut it short. She cropped her hair and dyed it blonde. [VERB noun] Synonyms: cut, reduce, trim, clip cropped adjective She had cropped grey hair. 9. countable noun [usually singular] A crop is a short hairstyle. She had her long hair cut into a boyish crop. 10. verb If you crop a photograph, you cut part of it off, in order to get rid of part of the picture or to be able to frame it. I decided to crop the picture just above the water line. [VERB noun] Her husband was cropped from the photograph. [be VERB-ed + from] 11. the cream of the crop phrase You can refer to the best people or things of a particular kind as the cream of the crop. Phrasal verbs: crop up phrasal verb If something crops up, it appears or happens, usually unexpectedly. His name has cropped up at every selection meeting this season. [VERB PARTICLE] Problems will crop up and hit you before you are ready. [VERB PARTICLE] Idioms: the cream of the crop the best people or things in a particular set or group The first Midlands media degree show features the cream of the crop of this year's graduates in photography, film, and video. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: crop an image It may be necessary to crop the image to meet the website requirements. Times, Sunday Times You can crop the image or add a frame. The Sun When we do crop an image we do so as faithfully as possible to keep the original integrity of the image. Times, Sunday Times This tool can also crop an image; it allows for better control. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He hated the way they cropped the images with - he felt - no respect for the visual impact. Times, Sunday Times There was an impetus to consolidate land into profitable activities such as sheep herding that required less labour than crop cultivation. The Times Literary Supplement The area studied has one of the highest rates of deforestation today owing to crop cultivation and cattle ranching, with significant consequences for global climate change. Times, Sunday Times Water from residents' shallow wells was acceptable for washing and crop cultivation, but too salty for culinary use. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The altitude also makes for earlier and longer crop cultivation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Management activities in the local habitat include grazing and crop cultivation, prescribed burning, and water manipulation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Pesticides, deforestation, lack of crop diversity and pollution can affect the health of the soil, air, food and our immune systems, they suggest. Times,Sunday Times The lack of crop diversity depleted the soil of nutrients, bacteria and insects. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the future, this crop diversity will play a central role in helping agriculture adjust to climate change and adapt to water and energy constraints. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ending monocultures grown under disease conditions by introducing crop diversity has greatly increased yields. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He knows that if his vanilla crop fails, his family will be plunged even deeper into debt. Times, Sunday Times About 20 per cent of each crop fails to make the grade, in terms of size and shape. Times,Sunday Times They erupt out of the breeding range when the cone crop fails. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Of the country's row crop farms, rice farms are the most capital-intensive, and have the highest national land rental rate average. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Local people own/work in rice and different crop farms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Originally a small crops farm, the only building on the site was a small farm house. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The number of farms has increased only slightly in the 2000 decade, from 7 to 8 in 10 years, including four field crop farms, sheep farms, and polyculture farms. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The more crops farmers don't grow, the more they earn. Times, Sunday Times But some crops farmers liked to grow. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They are farmers who practice both livestock and crop farmers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It also exacerbated tensions between cattle ranchers and crop farmers, partly when access to water was involved. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On the other hand, the common people, formed by livestock farmers, crop farmers, civil employees and marginalized people, lacked rights. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They argue that large-scale bioethanol plants will inevitably lead to the clearing of forests to make way for new crop land. Times, Sunday Times And as part of a mixed farming system, clover-rich pastures provide a non-chemical way of building up fertility on crop land. Times, Sunday Times Single crop 25%, double crop 41% and treble crop land 34%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Single crop 49%, double crop 39% and treble crop land 12%. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Flooding caused major damage to crops, while landslides destroyed crop land across the country. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition, our understanding of plant disease resistance will aid agricultural control of pathogens and pests, mitigating the global challenge of crop loss. Smithsonian Mag In addition to making a yearly payment for any apparatus placed on your land, it will also pay for any crop loss, disturbance and professional fees incurred. Times, Sunday Times A high level of damage can lead to total crop loss. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1984, when enilconazole was initially used for seed treatment, barley was a main target to mitigate crop loss due to disease. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition, the heavy rains led to significant crop loss. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Due to this bats diet of fruit, it may be considered a crop pest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It can sometimes be considered a crop pest. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It may also have been persecuted as a crop pest, though it did not live near dwellings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Irresponsible and perhaps well-meaning pressure groups are preventing delivery of agrichemical-free solutions to crop pests and diseases. Times, Sunday Times Recent technological advances, including compaction of transmitters, have even enabled its use with insects in the context of pollination, crop pests and conservation. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By electing to take extra specialist modules, however, students follow one of three strands - crop production, crop protection or amenity horticulture. Times, Sunday Times Life sciences, which includes producing chemicals for crop protection, seems likely to have noticed the least change. Times,Sunday Times They are easily covered to give crop protection and earlier harvests. The Sun The program promotes use of fertilizers and crop protection chemicals, soil fertility, and environmentally friendly agronomic methods of crop production. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In some, companies will try to replace agrochemicals with biological crop protection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the crop season the factory employs 550 people. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The harvest and rain ceremonies take place during the farming months to ensure a good crop season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When droughts and storms ruined several crop seasons, his family headed west and in 1924 he found work as a janitor with a railway company. Times, Sunday Times You will need more of the perpetual ones because they crop a little lighter each week — although more heavily over the whole cropping season. The Sun The main crop season varies by climate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Over the next decade the 50m-long vault will be filled with foil-packed samples of every crop variety. Times, Sunday Times Irrigation increased crop variety and production and the railroad shipped this bounty to market. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 And each of seven regions will also get an early cropping variety. The Sun New crop varieties must of course be safe, and one recommendation of the report was to subject any plants with novel characteristics to safety testing. Times, Sunday Times It also suggested planting slug-resistant crop varieties, sowing seeds more deeply into the soil and selectively timing irrigation and harvest. Times,Sunday Times It was almost impossible to cultivate any crops in the surrounding area because of the sand's expansion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They differentiated the lands on the basis of fertility and accordingly cultivated the crops that were best suited for the kind of soil. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farming cooperatives refer to arrangements where farmers pool resources, either to cultivate their crops or get their crops to market. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The financial picture must seem quite bleak to the current crop of university leavers. Times, Sunday Times (2006) Do any of the current crop have the courage to protect their party from total destruction? The Sun (2016) That's because, while you may have cleared up the current crop of mysteries you're facing, yet more are promised next week. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Street lights could damage crop production because they deter insects from pollinating plants, a study has found. Times, Sunday Times Earwigs readily consume corn (maize) silk and can damage the crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 On every full moon day a bull would charge into the groundnut fields and damage the crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They can also damage the crop late in the season by eating the grain from the mature spike. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They also had a promise: to destroy the crop. Times, Sunday Times The disease has the potential to destroy a crop within weeks. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 If thrown on the ground, it will destroy the crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 But as the cotton began to grow, the insect came back and destroyed the crop, wiping out most of the farms. Christianity Today These people were concerned about pests destroying their crops and whether there would be enough rainfall and enough sunshine so the crops would grow and have a good yield. Christianity Today They will also have avoided the bad months that can devastate the crop. The Sun Codling moths frequently target apple trees in the late spring and early summer, and their small grubs tunnel into the young fruits to feed - which can devastate the crop. Times, Sunday Times Adverse weather such as a storm or hail could devastate crop fields and orchards, and thus jeopardize the livelihood of farmers in the affected area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Severe floods in 1995 devastated crops, deepening a famine. Smithsonian And soon the farmers panicked again - because the yellowhammers were devastating crops. Times, Sunday Times By 1983, when drought hit the region, food shortages were widespread, and export crop production reached an all-time low. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By 1880 coffee had become virtually the sole export crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Production varied widely, and increasing amounts were used domestically, but at independence cotton was only the fourth most valuable export crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Experiments conducted here focussed on rice as a potential export crop, as well as cattle rotation techniques. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Main crop products in the 1980s were wheat, barley, potatoes, sugar beets, rye, and hops (an important export crop). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Home-grown feed crops, such as peas, beans and lupins, need to be encouraged. Times, Sunday Times That way, land currently used to grow feed crops like corn and hay could be used for more sustainable purposes, such as planting trees. Smithsonian Mag But because the feed crops are grown with heavy inputs of chemical fertiliser, pesticides and diesel fuel, they can hardly be considered 'climate-friendly'. Times, Sunday Times All types of pulses, jowar, maize, bajra, cotton, etc., are the rain fed crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Because of this cattle industry, local farmers grew more corn, alfalfa, and other feed crops during the 1900s and 1910s. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A fine crop of bargains down on the farm Times, Sunday Times (2013) Eleven years ago, when we moved to this terraced house in South London, the tiny back garden was a square of bare concrete, just 20ft by 20ft, with a fine crop of chickweed in beds around the edge. Times, Sunday Times (2007) We can, however, enjoy the fruits of autumn and there are fine crops of apples and pears now. The Sun (2011) A good sharp frost and your fruit crop has had it. Times, Sunday Times Is she hoping for more space in her garden, more light, a heavier fruit crop, or an attractive-looking tree? Times, Sunday Times Forty per cent of the fruit crop was believed lost. Globe and Mail Also, farmers and gardeners will be relieved to get much-needed cold for soft fruit crops. Times, Sunday Times They eat fruit and can harm fruit crops, but they do not seem to hurt other birds. Times, Sunday Times But without increased use of genetically modified crop varieties it seems inconceivable that food production will ever be abundant enough to keep pace with population growth. Times, Sunday Times The alliance's website tends to support industrial agriculture such as genetically modified crops, while questioning the value of alternative agricultural practices (e.g., free-range chickens). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are four main goals in generating genetically modified crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other molecular breeding tool include development of genetically modified crops that can tolerate plant stress. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 His artwork looks at the relationship of human society and the natural world, specifically water diversion, genetically modified crops and invasive species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The traditionally grown plants are: potato, maize, sunflower and grain crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 During the mid-1980s, the grain crop usually hit record highs of about 20 million tons, compared to 13 million tons in 1983. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Modern-day combines can be adjusted to work with any grain crop, and many unusual seed crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2006 grain crop failures led to steadily increasing bread lines and reinstatement of a ration system in most regions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He reported the failure of the year's grain crop, and noted this would certainly cause an increase in food prices, which were already high. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We grow a crop every year and have to destroy it. Times,Sunday Times The dad of one installed ladders and linked the bunker to the mains in his semi to power lights needed to grow the crop. The Sun That means you need less land to grow the crop and less water to irrigate it. Times, Sunday Times You can try to grow a crop by throwing seeds into the air. Houston Chronicle Better to grow the crop than leave the land unused. Times, Sunday Times For the first time in four years, the family has been able to harvest the crop. Times, Sunday Times A strawberry farmer requested a brief deferral of his summons to allow him time to harvest his crop. The Times Literary Supplement No labour was in supply to harvest the crop in time. Outlook India You will also need to have the machinery to cultivate, fertilise and harvest the crop before drying and storing it - or have someone to do it for you. Times, Sunday Times He needs to harvest his crop in order to keep the farm financially solvent. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The signal to farmers that the hay crop was in peak condition was that the seed pods of yellow rattle were fat, ripe and rattling in the breeze. Times, Sunday Times First settled in 1779, the land was considered superior for pasturage and hay crops, and orchards were large and productive. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the 18th century, this structure would have been a general-purpose barn, sheltering grain and hay crops as well as farm animals. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Alfalfa usually has the highest feeding value of all common hay crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our large 2,060 acre land base allows exposure to various crops, pastures, hay crops, research projects and demonstration plots. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Farmers are now irrigating their crops in a new and much more water-efficient method. Times, Sunday Times The cold winter was good for the plants, and rains filled up reservoirs on farms that store water to irrigate their crops during drought. Times, Sunday Times The fertile pond water was used for irrigating the crops in the greenhouses. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As cities offer the best opportunities for selling produce, farmers often have no alternative to using polluted water to irrigate their crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 There are 3-4 small canals who irrigate the crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a lucrative crop, tobacco has been the subject of a great deal of biological and genetic research. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This lucrative crop increased the value of the land which benefited land speculators in the area. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As sugar prices declined, however, farmers opted for more lucrative crops, such as soybeans. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most lucrative crops grown in the region include rice, coffee, and corn. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Many of the farmhouses have distinctive outhouses that were used for drying tobacco when it was the valley's main crop. Times, Sunday Times The main crop was decided. Times, Sunday Times The introduction of the falaj for irrigation coincides with the rapid growth of date as a main crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Therefore, the mulches competed with the main crop for resources. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Cotton, wheat, groundnuts, jowar, bajra, dadar and vegetables are the main crop products of the village. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Their maize crop failed when no rains came and a second crop looks to be heading the same way after the driest season in decades. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Some villagers have finally managed to get a maize crop together and we're gonna go mental. Times, Sunday Times (2009) The maize crop has failed again. Times, Sunday Times (2009) Fewer than half manage between them to produce a subsistence maize crop of maybe ten tonnes. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Currently more than a third of the maize crop in the US is stricken by drought and soya bean and wheat crops are also wilting. Times, Sunday Times (2012) You can't just scatter seeds in a field and ease off on the weedkiller to get an organic crop. Times, Sunday Times So it takes three years to get an organic crop to equal what a farmer using manmade controls can get in one. The Sun Experts analysed organic crop farming across 17 criteria such as yield, impact on climate change, farmer livelihood and consumer health. The Sun Like other studies, the results show significant variations, with some conventional crops having larger quantities of some vitamins than organic crops. Times, Sunday Times To begin with, organic fields must go through a cleansing period of three years, without the use of any prohibited substances, before planting the first organic crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In permanent crops there were 53,000 ha. planted, while in perennial crops 1,000 ha. were planted (2006). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In permanent crops there are 1,128 ha. planted, while in perennial crops 1,697 ha. were planted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In all of these environments perennial crops are grown (coffee, chocolate) and systems are practiced such as agroforestry. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 2006 there were 296 farms with 1,247 hectares of permanent crops and 3,570 hectares of perennial crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In permanent crops there are 633 ha. planted, while in perennial crops 12,500 ha. were planted. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When rains are late or inadequate, farmers do not even plant a crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Producers, however, were allowed to plant any crop on this acreage, except fruits, vegetables, and other prohibited crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Once you've planted your crops they take so long to grow that you end up putting down the handset and doing something else. The Sun Fear of bombardment means people have been too scared to plant their crops. Times, Sunday Times This year's potato crop was poor, forcing up the price of the nation's favourite deepfried foodstuff. Times, Sunday Times Last year an excessively hot and dry summer destroyed most of the potato crop. Times, Sunday Times Don't dispose of compost from the pots - use it for planting another potato crop. The Sun A large portion of my potato crop has been devastated by wireworms. Times, Sunday Times In non-tropical conditions, a potato crop can yield food within about 90 to 100 days, compared with 120 to 140 days for a rice crop. Times, Sunday Times What would she have made of the present crop of politicians? Times,Sunday Times (2020) So what about the present crop of players? Times, Sunday Times (2010) Nonetheless, many of the present crop of companies in the FTSE 100 have yet to make a move. Times, Sunday Times (2014) They need less water and less space to produce a crop. Times, Sunday Times Therefore, beech trees produce a crop only every other year. Times, Sunday Times However, established broad beans usually tolerate this pest and will still produce a crop. Times, Sunday Times This means home gardeners in northern regions can attempt to produce a crop without the need to overwinter plants with special treatment or protection. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In summer a number of poly-tunnels produce a crop of strawberries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This makes it a potential tool in forest maintenance, since it provides a profitable crop that depends on rather than replaces trees. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Enough tobacco was grown to make it a profitable crop for export. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Experts say further rises could be caused by farmers switching to more profitable crops. The Sun Wheat has also doubled in price and farmers are switching to higher-yielding and more profitable crops. Times, Sunday Times The state also converted its agricultural base from cotton to more profitable crops, attracted large military bases, and created tourism industries. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Protect the crop with insect screening up to 75cm (2ft 6in) high. The Sun Trees have been so laden that growers are thinning branches to protect the crop and ensure that the plums reach the 45mm diameter required by supermarkets. Times, Sunday Times Also, the farmers were determined to protect their crops. Times, Sunday Times It might be frightening for some, but farmers love ladybirds because, by eating aphids, they help to protect their crops. Times, Sunday Times On a farm, silos protect the crops from cross-contamination. Christianity Today I talked to the farmers about their work and tried to learn the complexities of raising a crop. Christianity Today The agreement would also indicate whether the sharecropper would use his own equipment to raise the crops, or use the landlord's equipment. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They were also skillful fishermen, created pottery and raised some crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They believe the blood spilt represents fertility and ensures a good rice crop. Times, Sunday Times In non-tropical conditions, a potato crop can yield food within about 90 to 100 days, compared with 120 to 140 days for a rice crop. Times, Sunday Times Thousands of factories have been forced to close, and at least a tenth of the country's rice crop has been destroyed, in one of the world's main rice-exporting regions. Times, Sunday Times The storm damaged around 40,000 homes and destroyed 1500; 40% of the rice crop were also lost. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 About 1.47 million lost power, and widespread crop damage occurred, resulting in the worst rice crop in 23 years. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Oh for the days when a reshuffle just meant rotating the crops in his allotment. Times, Sunday Times It also helps to rotate your crops each year. Times, Sunday Times You may also have to rotate crops to keep soil free from pest and disease. Times, Sunday Times The sheer speed with which farmers have rotated crops towards biofuels speaks of a desperation and economic hardship that might not have emerged for years without the biofuel experiment. Times, Sunday Times I don't have space to rotate crops. Times, Sunday Times A bout of poor weather at the wrong time in the growing season can set back or ruin a crop. Times, Sunday Times Once established, they will eventually move onto the edible pods, and may ruin the crop. Times, Sunday Times Many vegetables - including beetroot, lettuce, radishes and spinach - are prone to premature flowering and seeding (bolting), which ruins the crop. Times, Sunday Times A deluge of rain has ruined the crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 They believe that sacrifices are necessary to appease the deities, since otherwise they might incur their wrath and this will ruin their crops. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Winter cropping was down heavily because of the floods and there were fears that the spring crop would have been too late had the rain continued this month. Times,Sunday Times It comes in the fall, when he sells the spring crop of calves to a feedlot for fattening. Globe and Mail The spring crop during the dry season was dependent upon irrigation; the summer and fail crop during the rainy season utilized irrigation to supplement rainfall. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This provides future inoculum for the upcoming spring crop and for the last harvest of alfalfa for the season. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Rotation of crops was practiced as well as the winter/spring crop system. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The staple crop of yams gave the star his lightning speed, according to his dad. The Sun The error, which occurred when a dummy graphic was inadvertently screened, comes at a time of huge anxiety over the safety of the staple crop. Times, Sunday Times Here the metate plays an important role in the processing of maize, the staple crop of the culture. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Yams are also an important staple crop in the region. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Corn was planted and remained a staple crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Floods left the country's economically vital sugar crop devastated. Times, Sunday Times The consequent prosperity resulted in a robust economy leading to among others the expansion of sugar crop production and milling capacities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This resulted in several homes being flooded and about 5% of the island's sugar crop being damaged. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 These crushers are in the fields nearby their sugar crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As the sugar crop declined in importance in the late 19th century, the colony diversified into cultivation of bananas. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 When the grubs emerge, they eat the young leaves and spring blossom, reducing the summer crop. Times, Sunday Times The ripe figs are smaller than those in the summer crop, but sweet and good. Times, Sunday Times Few of you realised what a revolution has occurred to take both strawberries and raspberries from a short summer crop to fruits that top the popularity charts. The Sun The rice was a summer crop, while the crawfish were a winter crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Aubergine, cucumber, pepper and tomato are obvious summer crops. The Sun The gardeners who tended the crops usually had little to do with setting up the operation. Times, Sunday Times We tended the crops, read books, played cribbage and listened to the radio. Times,Sunday Times But several hundred returned yesterday to tend their crops and livestock. Times, Sunday Times Tending their crops, breeding them, cherishing them, these people ultimately prospered from them. Times, Sunday Times The idea of tending your crops on a warm summer's evening might be enchanting, but are you being realistic? Times, Sunday Times They have been forced to abandon 6,000 chickens, 190 head of cattle and a valuable tobacco crop, all of which could be lost. Times, Sunday Times High winds on the island destroyed hundreds of houses, and the storm's rainfall damaged the tobacco crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A dispute between the two first arose at the first harvest of the island's first tobacco crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Soils are rich enough to support a commercial tobacco crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The sandy soil and a new tobacco crop could be flue-dried proved a great incentive to farmers and tobacco manufacturers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Staff denied reports he was munching away at their tomato crop. The Sun We'd given up hope of a tomato crop this year. Times, Sunday Times The hurricane destroyed the area's tomato crop, and severely disrupted sugarcane plantations. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 About 30 percent of the tomato crops were destroyed during the storm. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The town remained largely agricultural, including large tomato crops, until recent decades when it expanded with suburban housing developments. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This year he planted a third of it with genetically modified corn instead of the area's traditional crop of wheat. Times, Sunday Times He added the turnip and the clover to the traditional crop rotation and directed it to cover four individual fields. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The introduction of foreign germplasm into crops has been achieved by traditional crop breeders by artificially overcoming fertility barriers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Lab-grown food could replace traditional crops and cattle in the effort to combat climate change, according to the makers of a documentary. Times,Sunday Times First, we shall start to lose our traditional crops and livestock. Times, Sunday Times Unlike regeneration treatments, thinnings are not intended to establish a new tree crop or create permanent canopy openings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The macadamia orchards soon give way to another tree crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Our fruit tree chart gives lots of information including space requirements, pruning tips and details of when trees crop. The Sun Faced with rising temperatures, farmers have to plan tree crops that can withstand a hotter climate. Times, Sunday Times Productive tree crops are planted and subsequently clearcut. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Valuable crop yields would rise. Times, Sunday Times For the moor owner, grouse are a valuable crop. Times, Sunday Times Until the early 1900s industrial hemp was a valuable crop used all over the world for its strong fibers and oil seeds. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The farm came with 100 acres of cultivated timothy grass, considered a valuable crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Coffee was a particularly valuable crop. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The entire fruit and vegetable crop was lost during the storm while the vanilla and geranium crops sustained heavy damage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Next to it farmers attempted to salvage lines of decaying vegetable crops. Times, Sunday Times Wheat, barley and vegetable crops were previously thought to be the first cultivated foods. Times, Sunday Times The research has shown up to 40% more beneficial compounds in vegetable crops and up to 90% more in milk. Times, Sunday Times The report also claims 30 per cent of vegetable crops are not harvested for being 'too ugly'. The Sun Currently more than a third of the maize crop in the US is stricken by drought and soya bean and wheat crops are also wilting. Times, Sunday Times (2012) British farmers warned the heavy rain and lack of sunshine has ruined the wheat crop. The Sun (2012) Sow corn salad in the veg plot for a late-autumn and winter crop. Times, Sunday Times If you want a winter crop, keep them inside on the kitchen windowsill. Times, Sunday Times The warmer weather has even rescued some of the winter crop. Times,Sunday Times For a winter crop, sow in late summer and autumn. Times, Sunday Times This year, the winter crop has been a bonanza - excellent quality, good yield and up to six weeks earlier than normal. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 农作物, 收获 Japanese: 農作物, 作物ができる |
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