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1Crop insurance — is purchased by agricultural producers, including farmers, ranchers, and others to protect themselves against either the loss of their crops due to natural disasters, such as hail, drought, and floods, or the loss of revenue due to declines in… …
2Crop circle — For the irrigation method that produces circular fields of crops, see center pivot irrigation. A 780 ft (240 m) crop circle in the form of a double (six sided) triskelion composed of 409 circles. Milk Hill, England, 2001 A crop circle… …
3Single Payment Scheme — On 26 June 2003, EU farm ministers adopted a fundamental reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and introduced a new Single payment scheme (or Single Farm Payment, SPS) for direct subsidy payments to landowners. The system of subsidy… …
4Digital single-lens reflex camera — Nikon D700 full frame (FX) digital SLR camera …
5Cream of the Crop — Studio album by Diana Ross the Supremes Released November 3, 1969 …
6Land Force Atlantic Area Training Centre Aldershot — LFAA TC Aldershot Kentville (Camp Aldershot) Heliport …
7double-crop — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ verb Etymology: double (IV) + crop, v. intransitive verb : to grow two or more crops on the same land in the same season or at the same time the land is so fertile that most ranchers double crop Time …
8double-crop — /dub euhl krop /, v., double cropped, double cropping. v.i. 1. to raise two consecutive crops on the same land within a single growing season. v.t. 2. to raise two crops per year on (an area of land). * * * …
9United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …
10Agriculture and Food Supplies — ▪ 2007 Introduction Bird flu reached Europe and Africa, and concerns over BSE continued to disrupt trade in beef. An international vault for seeds was under construction on an Arctic island. Stocks of important food fish species were reported… …
