Sentence examples for crop about from inspiring English sources

One immediate fear is the future of the sugar crop, about a month away from harvesting.

We had to mow the second crop about 3 weeks before we transplanted habitat plants (not ideal).

Modern agricultural practices are widely viewed as nutritional necromancy: can we be sure there isn't a nearby genetically modified crop about to cross-pollinate that pure pasture?

Standing stalks with ragged tops showed where the grain had been bitten off, and an area of crop about 10 metres square had been heavily trampled.

"The bees won't fly if it rains," Mr. Woolf said, talking of this year's spotty bloom, which is expected to produce a crop about 25percentt below last year's record yield.

Organic cotton, which has become trendy in recent years among eco-conscious consumers because it is grown without pesticides, still represents only a tiny fraction of the global cotton crop, about.02percentt, according to statistics provided by several agencies.

No longer the actual center, it still produces a crop worth about $3.5 million in a good year.

The group has also reduced their onion crop by about 40%, and have grown their parsnip crop in conjunction with another farmers' group.

Both portraits are intimate and studied, the figures closely cropped about the face, and softly focused.

The per unit area yield of soybean is much less than that of other major crops, about 1/3 of wheat, 1/4 of rice and 1/5 of corn.

Mr. DeSutter began fooling around with cover crops about 17 years ago, after Purdue University used one of his fields for research trials.