If the rains return within a few months, the main crop in October-November will not be badly affected.
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On yields pest resistant corn showed big differences in yield advantage - five times higher in the Prairie states than in the main crop-growing states.
And cotton, the main cash crop, has succumbed over the past decade to disease, credit shortages and cheaper imports.
It is feared the cold spell will have an impact on the main outdoor crop of Jersey Royal potatoes, which are planted from January onwards.
The research will focus on the current two main threats to the cereal crop: wheat bulb flies that attack the roots, and cereal aphids that tackle the tops of plants.
Thanks to early rains during the main planting season, the biggest rice crop (Indonesia has three a year) is now coming to market about a month early.
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He used the patented soybeans for his main spring crop, but went to a local grain elevator and purchased so-called commodity seeds for a riskier, late-season crop.
Foreign buyers including Japan, the main purchaser of US wheat, say they are unwilling to buy the GM crop, not least because they see few benefits for either consumers or themselves.
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Uzbekistan fears the dam will restrict water supplies to its main cash crop, cotton.
The outlook for the winter wheat crop is also poor, with India's main reservoirs, a source for irrigation canals, one-third below their seasonal average.
Zambia's problems have been compounded by floods which have wiped out a large proportion of this year's crop, coinciding with a shortfall of grain - particularly the country's main staple, maize - across Southern Africa.
The country's vital cashew nut crop provides a modest living for most of Guinea-Bissau's farmers and is the main source of foreign exchange.
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