Sentence examples for harvest down from inspiring English sources

Cuba earned just $430m from its latest sugar harvest, down from perhaps $5 billion in 1990.

They were migrant pickers, for the most part, who spent the winter in California and the rest of the year following the wild harvest down the Pacific Coast.

Alan Feuer (NYT) BUFFALO: GRAPE HARVEST DOWN -- This year's state grape harvest has shrunk, but the price for premium grapes has surged because of increasing wine consumption.

It's always a thin time before crops ripen, but with this winter's coffee harvest down 50% or more on normal, for the second year running, hunger, malnutrition and debt are new curses for hundreds of thousands.

Failure of the maize harvest – down by more than 100m tonnes on what was expected – has had a knock-on impact on wheat, which has not been affected by the lack of rain.

Many more arrive each spring, buy a field, spend a summer up in a village smoking and watching over the crop and then, in the autumn, take the harvest down to Goa to sell to backpackers at a sufficient profit to cover all costs and do the same the next season.

Global warming will tend to push harvests down: higher night-time temperatures are associated with lower yields.

We've also put together a slide show of green chiles being harvested down in New Mexico.

In FSM's EEZ in 1999, 130,000 tons of tuna was harvested (down from 230,000 in 1995), and only 2% of the catch was from local Micronesian vessels.

"Last year's harvest was down and we're very worried about this year's harvest".

The poppy harvest is down and the bazaars are open for business.