double-crop
Americanverb (used without object)
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of double-crop
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Farmers who double-crop often have smaller crops, but two smaller crops would still be significantly larger than an individual crop.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
The double-crop benefit was less dramatic in other parts of the state and could be less if wheat prices drop.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
A large tract of Logan County farmland could soon go green - and not because some industrious farmers are putting out double-crop corn or soybeans - and that could mean more greenbacks for the county.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 23, 2019
“We’d double-crop — do onions and come back with corn after that,” he said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2015
Plus, Poling says, when the strawberries are gone, a home gardener can use the beds to double-crop cantaloupes and other vegetables.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I think it’s a great idea,” said Illinois farmer Jeff O’Connor, who has double-cropped for years and hosted President Joe Biden at an event in May to promote efforts to increase food production.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Mark Lehenbauer, who raises livestock and grows row crops near Palmyra, Missouri, said he’s double-cropped for years and finds it reliably profitable.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
His operation is thriving this year because the family double-cropped, planting pumpkins on their plastic-covered, high-ridged fields.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 27, 2011
In 2002, M Plus farmed 1,600 acres of corn, 416 acres of cotton and 108 acres of soybeans double-cropped behind winter oats.
From Time Magazine Archive
The irrigated land in Bannu is heavily manured and is often double-cropped.
From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Douie, James McCrone, Sir
Department of Agriculture instituted new policies to encourage American farmers to begin growing two crops on one piece of land, one after the other, a practice known as double-cropping.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
The USDA’s Risk Management Agency would streamline crop insurance approvals for farmers planting a second crop in more than 1,500 counties where double-cropping seems viable.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
Aswan, as its most immediate benefit, will widen the narrow ribbon of fertile acreage along the Nile by 1.5 million acres, and allow double-cropping on another 4,000,000 acres.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yayoi farmers may have practiced double-cropping, with paddies irrigated for rice production in the summer, then the same fields drained for dry-land cultivation of millets, barley, and wheat in the winter.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
But double-cropping land in this way, at any time, is of very doubtful utility.
From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.
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