Sentence examples for commodities crop from inspiring English sources

And in commodities, crop prices rose sharply, with corn up more than 6% and sugar at a three-year high, on fears of a poor harvest in some parts of the globe.

You didn't have to grow a commodity crop to qualify.

California growers see their rice as a specialty, not a commodity crop.

Many commodity crop associations opposed the lower limits, and especially objected to any attempt to require a means test.

It has become so large and systematic as to resemble that of a commodity crop like corn.

"It's mostly a division of the spoils for the major commodity crop producers," Senator Lugar said.

(The penalties apply only to fruits and vegetables — if the farmer decides to grow another commodity crop, or even nothing at all, there's no problem).

A new US report, Risky Business (pdf), claims that on the current path and as a consequence of extreme heat, US national commodity crop production, including cotton, could decline by up to 42% by 2100.

Although peasant farmers and smallholders have been moving off the land for decades, speculators and commodity crop farmers are taking over vast tracts of land, says the 200-page report.

The formula for paying commodity crop subsidies will continue to give the top 10percentt of the farmers half the payments, and a provision to limit individual subsidies to $275,000 could falter.

Elsewhere, it represents a high‐value commodity crop.