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KANSANS ARE UNALARMED BY VANISHING U.S. CROPLAND
...losing about three million acres of its cropland every year to development and that the...the country's 540 million acres of cropland and that 60 million acres of that land...from farmers in any attempt to preserve cropland. ''Farmers don't like land-use...View free previewJune 25, 1981 - U.S. - News - 1090 words- -
Report Warns Nation Of a Loss of Cropland
About 39 square miles of cropland is being lost in the United States each day to soil erosion and...conserve vanishing resources. The report said that 26 square miles of cropland was lost each day to soil erosion and 340 acres an hour was lost...View free preview
Investors in the Woodford Equity Income Fund have started running for the exit. Its value shrank by £560m in May alone
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Trouble at one of Britain's best-known funds
Neil Woodford, star fund-manager, comes a cropper
Trouble at one of Britain's best-known funds
Neil Woodford, star fund-manager, comes a cropper
crop (PLANT) Show phonetics
noun1 [C] (the total amount gathered of) a plant such as a grain, fruit or vegetable grown in large amounts:
The main crops grown for export are coffee and rice.
a bumper (= very good) potato crop
2 [C usually singular] INFORMAL a group of people or things with something in common, that exist at a particular time:
The judges will select the best from this year's crop of first novels.
German groups look for the next crop of engineers in kindergarten
crop Show phonetics
verb -pp-
1 [I usually + adverb or preposition] If a plant crops, it produces fruit, flowers, etc:
The carrots have cropped (= grown) well this year.
2 [T usually passive] to grow crops on land:
The land is intensively-cropped.
Come a cropper
MeaningFall over or fail at some venture.
By the time John C. Hotten published his A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words in 1859, the phrase has come to refer to any failure rather than just the specific failure to stay on a horse:
"Cropper, 'to go a cropper', or 'to come a cropper', i.e., to fail badly."
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