crop farmers

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crop
noun
uk
/krɒp/us
/krɑːp/
(the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in ...
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farmer
noun[C]
uk
/ˈfɑː.mər/us
/ˈfɑːr.mɚ/
someone who owns or takes care of ...
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He was a high school mathematics teacher and football coach from 19721978, and a dairy andcropfarmerfrom 1978-1993.
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Crop farmers tended to their fields, livestock farmers herded their animals.
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This suggests that organic crop farmers in our sample have a greater interest in departing from the conventional agribusiness-dominated input and marketing system.
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Of the crop farmers in our sample, 109 described themselves as producing at least some organic crops, and 489 farmed conventionally.
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Food crop farmers can easily respond to price incentives in the short run by expanding the land area.
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Of the 1181 farmers who completed the survey, we focused on 598 crop farmers, in part because beef and dairy have unique characteristics that may need to be studied independently.
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They are farmers who practice both livestock and crop farmers.
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It also exacerbated tensions between cattle ranchers and crop farmers, partly when access to water was involved.
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On the other hand, the common people, formed by livestock farmers, crop farmers, civil employees and marginalized people, lacked rights.
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By the mid-1940s, deer were so numerous in the area that crop farmers had to patrol their fields by night.
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Some mixed farmers grow crops purely as fodder for their livestock; some crop farmers grow fodder and sell it to pastoral farmers.
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While this may be beneficial to crop farmers, others are frustrated with constant efforts to keep marsupials out of their grass cattle pastures.
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Cash crop farmers have utilized precision agricultural technologies combined with time-tested practices to produce affordable food.
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The defoliation led to significant losses for crop farmers; in some locations, the crops did not recover for four years.
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Small-scale crop farmers of reed, maize, beans, and rice were also greatly affected.
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