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• Crop insurance — is purchased by agricultural producers, including farmers, ranchers, and others to protect themselves against either the loss of their crops due to natural disasters, such as hail, drought, and floods, or the loss of revenue due to declines in… …   Wikipedia

• crop — [krɒp ǁ krɑːp] noun [countable] FARMING 1. a plant such as wheat, rice, or fruit that is grown by farmers in order to be eaten or used in industry: • The main crop in China is rice. • the cotton crop 2. the amount of wheat, rice, fruit etc that… …   Financial and business terms

• Crop — (kr[o^]p), n. [OE. crop, croppe, craw, top of a plant, harvest, AS. crop, cropp, craw, top, bunch, ear of corn; akin to D. krop craw, G. kropf, Icel. kroppr hump or bunch on the body, body; but cf. also W. cropa, croppa, crop or craw of a bird,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• crop — [kräp] n. [ME croppe < OE croppa, a cluster, flower, crop of bird, hence kidney, pebble; akin to Frank * kruppa, Ger kropf, a swelling, crop of bird (basic sense “something swelling out or swollen”) < IE * gr eu b , curving out < base *… …   English World dictionary

• crop — [n] harvest of fruit, vegetable annual production, byproduct, crops, fruitage, fruits, gathering, gleaning, output, produce, product, reaping, season’s growth, vintage, yield; concept 429 crop [v] cut, trim off chop, clip, curtail, detach,… …   New thesaurus

• Crop rotation — Fallow redirects here. For other uses, see Fallow (disambiguation). Satellite image of circular crop fields in late June 2001. Healthy, growing crops are green. Corn would be growing into leafy stalks by then. Sorghum, which resembles corn, grows …   Wikipedia

• crop — cropless, adj. /krop/, n., v., cropped or (Archaic) cropt; cropping. n. 1. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop. 2. the yield of such produce for a particular season. 3. the yield of some other… …   Universalium

• crop — crop1 W3 [krɔp US kra:p] n [: Old English; Origin: cropp bird s crop, top part of a plant ] 1.) a plant such as wheat, rice, or fruit that is grown by farmers and used as food →↑GM ▪ The main crops were oats and barley. ▪ crop production ▪ crops… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• crop — 1 noun (C) 1 a plant such as wheat, rice, or fruit that is grown by farmers, especially in order to be eaten: The main crop in China is rice. | Most of the land is used for growing crops. | crops being harvested in September 2 the amount of wheat …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Season extension — In agriculture, season extension refers to anything that allows a crop to be cultivated beyond its normal outdoor growing season. For colder climates, the fully heated and artificially lit greenhouse is the ultimate season extension device,… …   Wikipedia

• crop — [[t]krɒp[/t]] n. v. cropped, crop•ping 1) agr. the cultivated produce of the ground, while growing or when gathered: the wheat crop[/ex] 2) agr. the yield of such produce in one season 3) the yield of any product in a season 4) a group of persons …   From formal English to slang