debt
Failing crop prices and large amounts of debt
Failing crop prices and large amounts of debt
Failing crop prices and large amounts of debt
Corn is their largest crop, but they are far from being the largest corn producer. They are the largest producer in the US of barley.
crop : plants such as corn, wheat etc. grown by farmers in large amounts to be used as food crop: to cut someone's hair short, ie. a boy with closely cropped hair crop: to cut part of a photograph so that it is a certain size or shape
cotton
The farmers planted a huge crop.
The mild temperatures throughout Japan have allowed for a lush vegetation and crops such as rice.
The Cotton requires mass amounts of nutrients and sucks it from the soil, which is why farmers usually use crop rotation when producing cotton
The main crop of poor subsistence farmers in the South was cotton. Cotton was a vital cash crop for these farmers, as it could be sold for profit and was in high demand for textiles.
Leaving fields unplanted allowed soil to recover from cash crops production, but it was impossible for poor farmers who needed the money from the sale of their crops.
Crop rotation was important to farmers because it helped them out by making it easier to crop in the winter from different land in another state.