Yet the standards must take into account a huge variety of crops, farming practices and farm sizes.
Insect pests devour crops of food or timber, either in the field or in storage, and convey infective microorganisms to crops, farm animals, and human beings.
Among the crops farmed on this land are oats, sweet peas, lentils, wheat, corn, and soybeans.
To meet global demands for agricultural crops, farming systems in industrialized countries have undergone profound transformations.
Dangerous levels of radiation continue leaking unceasingly into land, sea, sky, crops, farm animals, and humans.
Concerning crops farmed in family pools, only a few theoretical studies are currently available.
A liberal arts college with about 2,800 students, Colgate sits in an area filled with small dairy and crop farms.
Four general layouts may be defined: large crop farms, large stock farms, farms in underdeveloped areas, and small to medium mixed farms.
Even its promotional brochure makes it sound sleepy, listing the main attractions as "a few large dairy farms, some crop farms and several horse ranches".
