What is "crop failure"

Usage examples of "crop failure".

Notable among these failures of ours are oak trees, whose acorns were a staple food of Native Americans in California and the eastern United States as well as a fallback food for European peasants in famine times of crop failure.

Then crop failure, drought, and flood were no longer little deaths within life, but simple losses of money.

What was needed was better roads for hauling in food from outside, and railroads to serve the region, and canals and embankments for the storage of water, so that drought did not lead immediately to crop failure and famine.

Widespread crop failure would result in great financial loss to the farmer and possible extinction of entire strains.

The name refers to a complex pattern of crop failure, political mismanagement, and faulty economic planning on colony planets.

If there was a crop failure it could mean serious food shortage in Sitka .

After a second year of grassland and crop failure, rather than have the cattle starve, Hydlenese farmers had sold many for slaughter, with the meat salted and the hides sold for what they would bring.

There would never be a crop failure, not with more than fifty thousand agricultural worlds.

There is not a crop failure on there, not a war, not any major disaster.