There are even traces in the brilliant BBC3 documentary I Believe in UFOs: Danny Dyer, even though the abiding memory of that is of Dyer's crestfallen expression when – having spent an age attempting to figure out what complex alien machinery it would take to form crop circles – he watches a video of some pranksters clomping around a field with planks on their feet.
Such anomalies can take a temporal form (cropping up in a short period) or a geographic form (occurring in a small region).
In this article, concepts are discussed relating to natural biodiversity used to form new crops and for the improvement of already domesticated species.
For example, all around the world, humans have provided large amounts of novel resources for herbivores in the form of crops or ornamental plants.
Maize-potato rotation is the main form of crop rotation and free range grazing in crop fields after harvest is commonly practiced.
Recent tests showed that a dangerous oxidation product, heptachlor epoxide, formed on crops sprayed with the pesticide.
Indoor agriculture refers to an increasingly popular form of crop cultivation that happens inside, making it less of a traditional farm and more of a manufacturing facility.
The mouth is followed by the muscular pharynx, which functions in sucking and swallowing, and the esophagus, which may be enlarged to form a crop.
In addition, a form of crop rotation came into use either by accident or by design, also helping to maintain soil fertility.
Knowing that direct subsidy payments are under the gun, our clever and cynical representatives are offering a bait-and-switch policy that will make things worse, and largely replace subsidy payments with an enhanced form of crop insurance — paid for by us, of course — which will further reduce risks for commodity farmers.
This methodology, when paired with gamification, may lend itself to a new, simplified form of crop management.
