Sentence examples for normal crop from inspiring English sources

Even if I could replace them, it would be three or four years until they were big enough to provide a normal crop".

Farmers are not necessarily planting less corn for economic reasons, Mr. Victor said: "They're going back to a more normal crop rotation.

"Although prices have come down, they probably would have come down more, had we had a normal crop year," he said.

Since a minimum of 20 inches (500 mm) is usually considered necessary for normal crop production, about one-half of Nebraska may be considered semiarid.

Now multiply those tribulations by many degrees and imagine a capital city in July and August committed to the Olympics to the exclusion of its normal crop of tourists, theatergoers or conventioneers.

In November the World Bank launched a report that detailed the catastrophic effects on agricultural productivity of the "new climate normal": crop failures brought about by climate change are likely to bring about hunger on a massive scale appears, the report's authors warn.

Greater concentrations of ozone are more damaging than was thought: the new report reckons high ozone levels cause an 8-15% reduction in yields compared with normal crops.

If Tuesday's report concluding that GM crops do not provide superior yields to normal crops wasn't discouraging enough to fans of the technology, Germany added insult to injury yesterday by becoming the sixth European Union country to ban the cultivation of a strain of GM maize because of environmental concerns.

As perennial crops, miscanthus and SRC represent a departure from normal cropping patterns on UK arable farms which are predominantly based around annual crops grown in rotation to ensure good soil and crop health and performance.

Many people think that these GM crops are good and should be used by farmers but many people also think that these artificial forms of normal crops should not be used.

Alex Waugh, from the National Association of British and Irish Millers, said the lower-than-normal crop yield was not good news for farmers but it was unlikely on its own to make a difference to consumers in the UK.