dead crops
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Dead crops are plants that have died before or after harvest, whether from drought, frost, disease, or neglect.
The phrase appears in agricultural contexts describing crop failure: Farmers surveyed the dead crops after the freeze.
Dead crops may be plowed under, left to decompose, or burned.
- witheredDried and shrunken
- blightPlant disease causing decay
- droughtProlonged water scarcity
- dust bowlErosion-ravaged drought zone
- famineSevere food shortage
harvest · poor harvest · wilted · dried up · barren · failed · rotting · parched · scorched · scorched earth · husks · stalks · field · dust · brown · shriveled · locusts · pestilence
- Droughtwater shortage, dry spell, dry spells, no rain, low rainfall