Sentence examples for crop means from inspiring English sources

For peanut butter eaters, who saw a cost increase of 24 percent this year, the strong crop means prices should start falling as the year ends.

A corn ethanol backer blasted the bill, saying expectations for a big surplus in this year's corn crop means more of the grain would simply go unused by next harvest if not needed by the ethanol industry.

Crop: "Crop" means to choose a certain play area to convert.

The tomato loss — about 95percentt of the crop — meant Mr. Horan could not make the bottled sauce he sells for winter income.

In the last century business cycles followed the movement of agricultural commodities: A bumper wheat crop meant more railcars, thus increased demand for steel.

The landscapes were selected to represent three gradients in landscape composition and heterogeneity: proportion of the landscape in crop, mean crop field size and Shannon crop type diversity of the farmland.

Finding wild relatives of such crops means new, more robust varieties can be bred.

The narrow range of crops means that biotechnology may not realize its full potential.

And the need to rotate crops means that some of the land he's already farming will be unfit for maize.

The generation of energy from catch crops means no additional competition for land use.

The widespread use of herbicide-resistant GE crops means we're consuming more glyphosate residues in our food than ever before--and scientists are concerned our health could be at risk.