Sentence examples for crop closing from inspiring English sources

Frances then passed over the central sections of the state of Florida in the U.S. only three weeks after Hurricane Charley, causing significant damage to the state's citrus crop, closing major airports, schools and canceling a collegiate football game.

Monsanto, the agrochemical giant behind many GM food crops, closed down its pharming efforts in 2003.

Some people say it's too much, I need to crop closer.

Among the 32,171 foals born in Hansen's 2009 crop, close to 35 percent were bay, 32 percent were dark bay/brown, and almost 25 percent were chestnut.

You can't really grow grapes in Champagne because it's too damn cold; and you can't really grow grapes in Châteauneuf-du-Pape because there's no soil there — but you force the vines to adapt to the environment and search for nutrients, and where the season is short enough and you have to crop close enough you get terrific flavor.

This review reports on the potential role of GM biofortified crops in closing the micronutrient gap – increasing the dietary intake of micronutrients in human populations.

As slaves, the islanders had harvested and processed sugar cane, but fed themselves by cultivating their own tiny gardens, for which they developed sophisticated techniques of inter-cropping — a kind of sustainable agriculture that involved planting a variety of crops close together.

His hair was cropped close.

His mink brown hair was cropped close to his head.

His graying hair was cropped close to his scalp.

Maggie's hair was pepper-and-salt, cropped close to her head.