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a wager you plant in spring and pray over until autumn pays out.
means A crop is a cultivated plant grown and harvested for food or profit, or more loosely the total yield gathered in a season.
from From Old English 'cropp,' which meant the top or rounded head of a plant — and also a bird's craw, that bulging pouch where seeds are stored. The thread running through both is the idea of a swelling, gathered top. Over centuries the sense climbed from the plant's head to the whole harvest, and it spread into cousins like 'to crop' (to cut off the tops) and even the riding 'crop.' Related to Germanic words for a lump or cluster.
- green revolution
- Dwarf wheat varieties saved an estimated billion lives.
- monoculture risk
- One disease wiped out the Gros Michel banana.
- ancient gamble
- Farming began roughly 12,000 years ago independently worldwide.
- seed vault
- Svalbard backs up crop seeds inside an Arctic mountain.
- three sisters
- Corn, beans, squash grow better planted together than alone.
irish potato famine — 1845-1852 crop failure in ireland that killed 1 million people
dust bowl — 1930s crop collapse across us great plains due to drought and erosion
bengal famine 1943 — rice crop failure in british india that killed 3 million people