Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rare snows have melted, and the record chill has receded in Florida. But the truck gardens in the far south of the state lay devastated, their tomatoes, lettuce and cucumbers wiped out by the cold. Some migrant workers are heading northward, searching for new crops to pick. There is work in the citrus groves of central Florida-hard, chilly work-as growers race to salvage what they can of an orange crop that was 30% to 40% destroyed by the Big Freeze. You can see the damage from the air-the telltale brownish gray of damaged trees edges...
...into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
Worried citrus-fruit growers still could not tell whether firing up nighttime heaters had done much to save their groves. Some 55 million boxes of oranges (out of an estimated 211-million-box crop) were lost, forecasting a likely price rise. Temperatures as low as 30° at Fort Lauderdale and 23° in Homestead killed pole beans, watermelons and tomatoes. It was the worst frost in 37 years. The weather was causing even Floridians to pack up and head south. Puerto Rico reported an influx of tourists from Miami-but high winds made even San Juan...
...Crop Killed. Why have prices gone up so much? The cost of green coffee beans began immediately rising after the devastating frost of July 1975 that killed or harmed more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, which provides about a third of the world's supply. Although the 1975 crop had already been harvested, large parts of the potential crop for this year and last were severely damaged. Brazil's production plunged from 22.2 million bags of coffee in the 1975-76 crop year to 6.4 million bags last year, a 70% drop, while world demand remained...
...emphasis on exports, but he is also expected to bring the Government back into U.S. agriculture in a big way. One objective: to protect smaller operations among the U.S.'s 2.8 million farms (down from 5.4 million in 1950). This intervention will take the form of higher crop-support prices and increased crop loans coupled with creation of a national grain-reserve system to cushion farmers against price fluctuations...