crops
Farmer's planted produce
Crops are plants cultivated for food, fiber, or other uses: corn crops, cash crops, crop rotation.
A crop is also a yield or harvest: This year's crop of graduates.
To crop is to cut short—cropping hair, cropping a photograph.
A riding crop is a short whip.
An animal's crop is a pouch in its digestive tract where food is stored before digestion.
Cereal plant's harvest unit
- wheatCereal crop for flour
- riceStaple cereal grain
- cornCereal grown on cobs
- maizeCob-bearing cereal crop
barley · oats · sorghum · millet · soybeans · cotton · sugarcane · cassava
Cultivation of land, livestock
- farmlandAgricultural terrain
- acreageAmount of land owned
- tillageSoil preparation for planting
- agronomyCrop and soil science
monoculture · yield · fallow · arable · subsistence · plantation · homestead · smallholding
Turning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- fertilizingAdding nutrients to soil
- tillingCultivating soil for crops
seedbed · transplanting · germination · planting · furrow · manure · compost · mulching
Crops sown after frost
- summer growthWarm-season vegetation increase
- autumn harvestSeasonal gathering of crops
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
- frost dateExpected freezing day estimate
rainfall · climate · weather · annual · biennial · perennial · maturation · flowering
Cutting crops for collection
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- combineMerge, or harvesting machine
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
- scytheManual crop-cutting implement
winnowing · gleaning · yield · bounty · husking · sheaf · granary · silage
grain
Cereal plant's harvest unit
maize · barley · oats · sorghum · millet · soybeans · cotton · sugarcane · cassava · potato
agriculture
Cultivation of land, livestock
agronomy · monoculture · yield · fallow · arable · subsistence · plantation · homestead · smallholding · field
plowing
Turning earth for crops
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- fertilizingAdding nutrients to soil
tilling · seedbed · transplanting · germination · planting · furrow · manure · compost · mulching · hoeing
spring planting
Crops sown after frost
- summer growthWarm-season vegetation increase
- autumn harvestSeasonal gathering of crops
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
frost date · rainfall · climate · weather · annual · biennial · perennial · maturation · flowering · ripening
reaping
Cutting crops for collection
- threshingExtracting grain from stalks
- combineMerge, or harvesting machine
- sickleCurved hand-held harvesting blade
scythe · winnowing · gleaning · yield · bounty · husking · sheaf · granary · silage · haystack
vegetables
Edible plants, not fruits
berries · orchard · garden · organic · freshness · market · farmers market · local · seasonal · edibles
drought
Prolonged water scarcity
locust · weevil · fungus · disease · hail · frost damage · infestation · pesticide · herbicide · fungicide
- agriculturefarms, farm, farmers, farming, cattle ranching
- countrysidefarmhouse, farm, barns, farmyard, barn
- farmingfarm, farms, farmer, farmers, harvest
- food productionfarming, cheese making, wine production, livestock, olive oil
- resourcesresources, money, natural resources, human resources, financial resources
- farmfields, plots, gardens, hoe, seeds
cropslivestock
Domesticated farm animals
cattle · farm animals · animals · herds · poultry
cropsweeds
Unwanted wild plants
wild plants · wilderness · native vegetation · fallow fields · wildflowers
cropscrop failure
When fields yield nothing
failed harvest · famine · blight · drought · scarcity
- cream of the cropThe very best
- crop topTruncated upper garment
- crop upAppear without warning
- cropping upAppearing unexpectedly, repeatedly
- crop circlesPatterns in flattened grain
- cropped upAppeared unexpectedly
crop, cropped, cropping, cropper, cropland, croppers, uncropped, intercropping, monocropping