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A second crop in the same year.
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An agricultural production that exceeds the needs of the society for which it is being produced, and may be exported or stored for future times.
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To plant non-woody crops between rows of nut, fruit, timber, or fodder trees.
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(horticulture) the temporary planting of fast-growing plants into flower beds to create colourful, temporary, seasonal displays, during spring, summer or winter
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The cultivation of two crops at the same time
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A pit of soil used in agriculture to capture pesticide residue and break it down.
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(figuratively) A place or institution seen as creating large numbers of a stated thing, type of person, etc.
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(agriculture, horticulture, archaic) The act of scattering seed; a crop grown from such seed.
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(agriculture) A crop that is grown for sale rather than for personal food or for feeding to livestock.
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Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time.
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Alternative form of conacre [(Ireland) An agricultural system of letting land in small patches or strips, usually for tillage.]
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A field of corn, wheat or other cereal crop
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(agriculture) a field in which the cotton plant is grown and harvested.
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Any of several crops planted between others in order to prevent erosion and to improve soil quality (especially by adding nitrogen)
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(historical) The conversion of land into many small, independently operated farms, or crofts.
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An area in a field of crops where the stalks have been flattened into a circle or other geometric shape.
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(agriculture) A farming practice in which the same land is used to grow different crops in successive seasons or years (when once the land would have been left fallow); used to prevent erosion and increase fertility.
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(agriculture) The growing of crops.
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(agriculture) A method of harrowing crosswise.
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To simultaneously cultivate and mulch agricultural soil
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To turn or stir soil in preparation for planting.
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(horticulture) An approach to growing lettuces, etc. where one harvests only the outer leaves, leaving the inner part of the plant to grow replacements that can be harvested later.
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(agriculture) The practice of sequentially raising and harvesting a second (or third, or sometimes more) crop (usually vegetables) in the same field in a single growing season, especially in warmer climates such as California's Imperial Valley or the Rio Grande valley of Texas and Mexico.
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(agriculture, horticulture) To cultivate or tend to (a garden, land, plants, etc.); especially, to add fertilizer or manure to (soil); to fertilize, to manure.
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(transitive) to provide or add soil to
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(horticulture) A plant that lacks a distinctive shape and can fill inconvenient spaces around other plants in pots or gardens.
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A crop raised for human consumption, such as wheat or rice.
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A section of a crop that is harvested first
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An agricultural crop of fruit.
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(intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) to grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
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The second (or subsequent) crop so planted.
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(literally) The latter (i.e. second) mowing, a second crop of grass grown after the first was harvested
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(agriculture) A cover crop interplanted or undersown with the main crop, and intended to fulfil the functions of a mulch, such as weed suppression and regulation of soil temperature.
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(agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
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The principal vegetable crop of a season (excluding early and late varieties)
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(idiomatic, dated, US, Canada) To plant or maintain a garden, especially a vegetable garden.
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(agriculture, forestry, ecology, of a population of plants) To produce a very large quantity of fruit or seed in certain years but not others.
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(poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general.
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(agriculture, uncountable) A cyclical crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica.
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(agriculture) A crop of a single kind, grown without others.
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(agriculture) The practice of growing a single crop year after year on the same land.
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(agriculture) The cultivation of a single crop at a time.
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The practice of growing two or more crops on the same piece of land during a single growing season.
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A system of crop rotation in this order: potatoes, oats, peas, rye.
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Synonym of Norfolk crop rotation
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(agriculture) A flooded field where rice is grown.
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Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
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The rate at which crops are grown on a standard area of land.
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(horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.
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(agriculture) The clearing of woodland for agricultural purposes.
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a dressing of fertiliser applied between the rows of a growing crop
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A plant that is grown alongside a crop in order to improve its growth; A companion crop.
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The use of skyscrapers to grow crops.
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A kind of cover crop planted near a primary crop in order to prevent the growth of weeds in that area.
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(ecology, agriculture) The total dried biomass of the living organisms present in a given environment.
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(agriculture) Rotation, as of crops.
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A type of agricultural crop that is not expected to be commercially viable much longer.
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(uncountable) The property of grass species to produce multiple side shoots or tillers.
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The most fertile soil, easiest to start new plants in.
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A plant that is planted in order to attract agricultural pests away from nearby crops.
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The use of trap crops to reduce damage from agricultural pests.
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Something that crops up, or occurs unexpectedly.
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(archaic) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
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The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.
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