Early last month, the Ceres, a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot, manifestly homemade, mainly plywood, twin-masted sailing barge, departed from Ferrisburgh, Vermont, on Lake Champlain, bearing fifteen tons of Vermont- and New York-grown foodstuffs (see above) — mostly non-perishable, the rest fall storage crops — bound for New York City.
The winter conditions also spelled trouble for farmers whose winter crops - bound for festive dinner tables - remained in the frozen ground.
Iran is by far the world's most important producer: in 2005 it grossed some 230 t of dry threads, or 93.7 percent of the year's global total mass; much of the Iranian crop was bound for export.
Planted compactly, the permanent rooting of these cash crops binds the soil, permitting the viable and sustained use of steep slopes.
In other words, his wheat crop was inextricably bound up with the agricultural trade between states even if he was only growing it for his own use.
Having many different types of seed – bred for their flavours and better nutrition, and which have evolved with local pests and diseases and are adapted to different soils and weather patterns – is a far better strategy of resilience than developing a single crop that is bound to fail in the face of climate change.
Van Zyl acknowledges that all the issues Pistorius has dealt with in the last year are bound to crop up again.
Experts say that if the crop collapses, which is bound to happen at its current rate of loss, then local people will have no other income, and the consequences for the region would be catastrophic.
And don't put a complete taboo on the subject, for if she was part of his life for a number of years she is bound to crop up in conversation occasionally.
Given that "Alpha House" is a series set in contemporary Washington and delivered on the web — not through broadcast or cable — comparisons to Netflix's "House of Cards" are bound to crop up, though this doesn't seem to concern Mr. Trudeau at all.
