Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rains helped the winter-wheat crop. Oklahoma and Kansas farmers cheerfully scanned billowy green fields. Good growing weather until June would mean a bumper harvest to spill into the nearby empty elevators. Pastures and grazing lands also thrived; from New England to the Rockies, the grass was lush...
...rains had hurt most farmers. During most of the month, field work was at a standstill. To increase the scarce livestock feed supply, farmers had planned a record crop of oats. But less than half the oats in Illinois and Iowa, less than a third in Nebraska, had been planted...
...South, planting was the latest in a quarter-century. Vegetables that should be well up in April were not even planted. The snap-bean crop in Georgia will be 75% below normal. Watermelons will be scarce. A more important delay was in corn and cotton planting...
...livestock population is now so big that practically all of last year's bumper corn harvest, plus a carry-over of 394 million bushels, will have been drawn from the cribs by October, when the 1944 corn crop is harvested. It is estimated that by July, wheat stocks in the cavernous elevators will be down to a little more than a month's supply. In one year the record number of U.S. livestock will have eaten all the grain that the land produced, plus the huge surpluses from other years...
...seize Honan's wheat crop, reputed to be good...