Sentence examples for crop contract from inspiring English sources

The main components of the model are: activities for crops, work rates for the various crop operations, levels of chemical applications (both in the form of crop protection products and fertilisers), initial seed requirements, grain drying requirements and the associated diesel use for this operation, yield data for grain and straw for each crop, contract costs and diesel use by machinery.

Five years ago, half my crop contracted blossom-end rot, a foul blackening of the flesh that starts at the bottom of the fruit and proceeds upward, until it looks like a collapsed black balloon.

Under some contracts the buyer may retain ownership of a key input, such as chickens in broiler chicken contracts and the seed and output in crop contracts.

Area-yield index does not directly rely on a weather parameter for crop insurance contract design but it depends on crop yield index across a representative target area or individual farm historical yield.

Findings also indicate that experience with growing energy crops on contract does not enhance contract acceptance.

A lot of Afghans have set up construction firms, hoping to cash in on the crop of contracts out there for rebuilding the country's infrastructure.

Preliminary estimates for 2001 point to a further reduction in regional agricultural output growth to about 1 percent, with crop production contracting by almost 1 percent while livestock output is expected to expand by just under 4 percent.

Other economists, however, dispute such sunny assessments, arguing that the economy remains subject to wide swings, surging this year thanks in part to favorable weather conditions for certain crops, after contracting slightly in 2012 when farmers struggled with a drought.

A smaller share of crops are under contract, and most contracts are marketing contracts (O'Donoghue et al. 2011).

The new-crop July 2009 corn contract settled at $7.10, up more than 3.0% from Friday, and a record for a spot contract.

The new-crop July 2009 corn contract scaled an all-time peak of $7.20 per bushel, after U.S. corn futures soared to a record above $7.00 on Friday.