They eat the plants and affect their growing process, also, they make crops unable to be sold.
they can really damage crops because they eat them up depending on the type or pest(s)
Since weeds are also pests, they can steal nutrients away from the crop plants.
the rain
Yes precipitation (snow) is bad for growing crops
Crows can eat crops in the fields, that farmers are growing.
Pesticides remove pests which are detrimental to other human processes such as growing crops, or being able to go outside without the risk of insect bites and/or contracting disease carried by pests.
Insects
It either helps or ruins crops farmers are growing.
The growing of cash crops affected the societies in the states of Virginia and Maryland because it caused them to invade the Native Americans to take their land. Growing certain cash crops was hard on the soil and they needed more land.
Carbon dioxide is decreased.
Pesticides.
The affect of rivers flooding in Mesopotamia was that the rivers would deposit silt which was very good for growing crops
They can do damage to crops and are thus classed as insect pests, though somewhat comical looking. The number one affect I have noticed is that I find them interesting and slightly funny to look at.
T. J. Crowe has written: 'An annotated list of insect pests of field crops in Ethiopia' -- subject(s): Catalogs and collections, Diseases and pests, Field crops, Insect pests, Insects