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Scientists can genetically modify corn, soybeans and cotton — three field crops that account for the vast majority of glyphosate use in the United States — to choose which crops survive and which die after glyphosate treatment.
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Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
With seasonal breaks and fallow-field crop rotations, unused fields could theoretically transition into wetlands for many weeks and months of the year.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The primary component of a whitetail’s wintertime diet isn’t ag field crops or food plots.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
But ethno-botanists and archeologists are finding the first agriculture actually began with trees, priming the peoples of Central and South America to later grow field crops like corn.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
As in Haiti, breadfruit helped isolated islanders survive after Hurricane Maria destroyed most of their field crops in 2017.
—Richard Schiffman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Those insights are shared with retail agronomists, who know all about field crops and who can help farmers understand what would perform best on their land.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
But this spring, many of those plants may have survived the winter, which will require extra steps for the farmers, said Eric Anderson, a field crops educator with MSU Extension based in St. Joseph in southwest Michigan.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
This gives conventional cotton the dubious honor of having the most intensive pesticide use per land unit of the nine field crops surveyed by the agency over the past five years, surpassing even corn, soybeans and wheat.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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Michal Ruprecht, CNN Money, 24 Feb. 2026
With seasonal breaks and fallow-field crop rotations, unused fields could theoretically transition into wetlands for many weeks and months of the year.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
The primary component of a whitetail’s wintertime diet isn’t ag field crops or food plots.
—Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 20 Mar. 2025
But ethno-botanists and archeologists are finding the first agriculture actually began with trees, priming the peoples of Central and South America to later grow field crops like corn.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
As in Haiti, breadfruit helped isolated islanders survive after Hurricane Maria destroyed most of their field crops in 2017.
—Richard Schiffman, WIRED, 11 Sep. 2024
Those insights are shared with retail agronomists, who know all about field crops and who can help farmers understand what would perform best on their land.
—Alena Botros, Fortune, 26 June 2024
But this spring, many of those plants may have survived the winter, which will require extra steps for the farmers, said Eric Anderson, a field crops educator with MSU Extension based in St. Joseph in southwest Michigan.
—Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2024
This gives conventional cotton the dubious honor of having the most intensive pesticide use per land unit of the nine field crops surveyed by the agency over the past five years, surpassing even corn, soybeans and wheat.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Field crop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20crop. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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