The last crop out of Brazil, the supplier of more than one-third of the world's coffee, was a relatively small one.
Instead, he battled to save his newly sown crop by drawing out groundwater with the help of a diesel-powered pump.
Ultimately, the race will hinge on get-out-the-vote efforts and whether the new crop of young professionals come out to the polls, said Brigid Harrison, a professor of political science and law at Montclair State University.
Far from the farmer bearing the heartache of a colt dying in his arms or poor weather wiping out a crop, he has somehow managed to transfer the risk to you.
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Cary Fowler of the Global Crop Diversity Trust laid out a compelling case to do more to protect endangered food species in advent of climate change, especially in South Asia, where the environment is anticipated to be most fragile.
Alan Moore is one of the brightest of the crop of young financial advisors out there.
The current crop of noninvasive tests grew out of a discovery made in the late 1990s by Dr. Lo at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Lanworth, always looking for new ways to gather real-time data, is figuring out how to pay crop dusters to snap photos from their planes.
Like his rivals, ABC failed to deliver a break-out hit from a crop of first-year series better described as a colossal disappointment.
Farmland yields (not crop yields, financial yields from renting out the land) are at an extreme low.
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With his support, the Americans are wiping out Colombia's coca crop through aerial spraying at a pace unimaginable only months ago.
In the distance a last glimmer of sun caught the top of Pumpkin Hill where men were still out mowing the first hay crop on the Deaver farm.
Among a crop of leggy Russians, Vodianova stood out for her chameleonlike acting abilities, intense work ethic and sense of humor not to mention her wide-set, expressive eyes, thick brows and pouty lips.
Now that those stocks are up more than 700% and 500%, respectively, Kennedy is out of them, but he's found what is turning out to be a new crop of red-hot overseas Web plays.
Instead, he's always keeping an eye out for the next rising star to come out of Bekoji's rich crop.
As Bajrang Lal Goyal, a trader who joined the Rajdhani exchange 40 years ago, points out, India's winter crop is just days away from hitting the market.
Of course, since we're in the U.S., we can't actually check this out, but we hope the upcoming crop of HD radios includes similar functions.
In this episode, Richard Quest finds out what motivates today's hardy crop of explorers and uncovers the madness that drives them to boldly go where no one has gone before.
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.
Algae at least can be grown, with sufficient engineering, on a large scale that does not require prime crop land in competition with growing food crops (as rules out conventional biofuel strategies beyond grants from governments and the European Union), and there is no demand for freshwater since saline water does even better to promote the growth of certain highly oil-yielding strains.
Of course Waugh (who, truth to tell, likely never mistook a Bordeaux for a Burgundy in his life) might be faked- out if not flabbergasted by some of the characteristics that crop up in wine these days.
Their attitude is, well, people change jobs enough for us to pay for the preventive medicine now when the problem may not crop up for another 20 years and they'll be long out of our system, so we don't want to reimburse it because it will make things more costly.
It grew partly out of a 1905 scandal in which traders obtained confidential cotton-crop estimates.
In the floods that started in July in Pakistan 21 million people were impacted, over 3 million lost their homes and their entire source of livelihoods, entire roads and infrastructure plants were wiped out in certain pockets, 1.5 million hectares of standing crop were destroyed.
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Well, that's pretty much the kind of cluster we're going to be running into with the Android camp come the first half of next year thanks to a rumored bumper crop from HTC, some Sony Ericsson gear, undoubtedly a few lookers out of Moto, and now this gear from Acer.
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But some poorer countries, such as India (which is just harvesting its first crop of genetically modified cotton), are worried that their farmers will be shut out of European markets because they will not have the means to comply.
And while Americans are increasingly considering all-electric vehicles for regular commuting and shorter trips, having your own charging station, let alone a solar-powered one, is still out of reach for most drivers, even as the stations start to crop up at auto dealerships and major businesses nationwide.
Many African countries are looking to the crop-driven "green revolution" of Asia for ideas, but Ms Sibanda points out that what Africa needs is a "rainbow" revolution.
We've got a freeze going out in California, where they're gong to be losing half their citrus crop.
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