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Farmers tend to reduce fertilizer usage in response to higher prices, which reduces future crop yields, or reduces acreage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

It creates a “supply-side risk that threatens to reduce crop yields,” said Roukaya Ibrahim, chief commodity strategist at BCA Research.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

But leaving part of a crop in the ground comes at a cost.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

Not to worry, a new crop will emerge in the spring, as the ancient magic begins anew.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A foreman, he ran the Hermitage cotton gin—an important position on the farm, where cotton was a cash crop.

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

After bumper crops in Australia, Canada and elsewhere, global wheat stocks increased by roughly 20 million tons in the 2025-26 crop year—five months’ worth of Russian exports in normal times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

That’s especially true when it comes to coffee, sugar and cocoa, which are among the most weather-sensitive crops in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

To encourage the owls, Richard planned to leave some crops unharvested near the woodland where they live.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

But if agribusiness uses more than half of the water, does it make economic sense to support farming water-intensive crops in the arid West?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026

Few men were left in the war-torn Soviet villages—they were all at war, leaving the women to drive tractors, manage livestock, and raise crops.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

“I’m a suburban dude,” he said, smiling from his home in metro Atlanta, his cropped two-toned dreads bobbing as he spoke.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

The trouble that has cropped up is a dispute between the managers of Parton’s ongoing business ventures, She’s Alive, and Parton’s nephew, Bryan Seaver.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 28, 2026

Wildlife traders often describe animals as needing to be "rehomed", rather than explicitly offering them for sale, and post tightly cropped images of their wares to avoid revealing their locations.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Soon, businesses cropped up around the bay to serve young Americans flush with cash and a need for distraction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Just like with Shooting Star’s meteoric rise, my admission to Juilliard—if it happens—will create certain complications, or, more accurately, would compound the complications that have already cropped up in the last few months.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

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

I trust that cuddy hasn’t cropt your cashbox, Before your eldest son has got his portion.

From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

Yet good Gentlemen, looke well about you, and remember how Tiberius plaid the Fox with the Senate of Rome, and how Fabius Maximus cropt his ears for his cunning.

From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Nathaniel Ward

The Men are all painted with cropt Hair, and the Women with Forehead-Cloaths, unless they assent and consent.

From An Essay on Criticism by John Oldmixon

He then placed before me the Catholicon of 1469, by G. Zainer: a cropt, but clean and desirable copy.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

Investors everywhere should understand why the idea of canceling debt keeps cropping up and what it would mean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 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

Petey watched the horse cropping the grass by one of the hives.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby