The USDA cut its estimate of Argentina's corn crop by 6% to 23.5 million metric tons.
Instead, he battled to save his newly sown crop by drawing out groundwater with the help of a diesel-powered pump.
The USDA lowered its forecast of Australia's wheat crop by 2% to 25 million metric tons to reflect recent flooding.
GMOs made up more than half the world's soya crop by area, a quarter of its corn and over a tenth of its cotton.
Until they do, the monoculture of the banana means that the fruit is susceptible to widespread crop damage by Race Four and perhaps new diseases.
The fall came even as the amount of land used to cultivate the crop rose by 18%, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said.
Australia's key crop production fell by more than a third during the quarter, hit by the worst drought in a century.
Since Brazil relaxed price and production controls on sugar cane two decades ago, its crop has increased by two and a half times.
It reports that trials of the modified crop raised yields by up to 23% in China, by up to 24% in Brazil, and by up to 41% in the Philippines.
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In the immigrant heavy farming industry, crop production employment dropped by 15.6 percent in the first 4 years after LAWA was passed.
Greenpeace wants more scientific evidence, while activists that may have been inspired by its crop-trashing efforts ten years ago are busy destroying trials that would provide it.
The Royal Society also said that climate change is likely to increase the scale of the "challenge" ahead, by decreasing crop yields in most parts of the world.
This year, he got his crop into the ground by late April, but dry conditions are now causing damage and reducing the number bushels his fields will produce.
Scientists long ago discovered, for example, how to give crop plants new traits by forcibly mating them with unrelated wild species known to contain natural pesticides, carcinogens, and anti-nutrients.
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Dr Gatehouse added that the insects were also locked in a battle to overcome any defence mechanisms used by the crop, and the team would also attempt to find a way to counter this.
The USDA again raised its estimate of how much of that crop will be consumed by the ethanol fuel industry, which enjoys extensive government incentives, to 4.9 billion bushels, up 100 million bushels from its December estimate.
Marta Cecilia Guapacha, the head nurse at the town's San Francisco hospital, says that she has treated many cases of poisoning, skin rashes and respiratory and eye problems which she believes to be caused by herbicides sprayed by police crop-dusting planes.
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In the 18th century hundreds of thousands of people there perished from a famine caused by massive rice crop collapse.
This cream of the regional crop is not a ranking by size, like our annual Global 2000, or necessarily a measure of brand wattage.
The collection and maintenance of the seeds is being co-ordinated by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, which has responsibility of ensuring the "conservation of crop diversity in perpetuity".
Esmerelda Santiago, author of the memoir When I Was Puerto Rican, says the current crop of singers being pushed by the major labels could use some skin-tone diversity.
This is not entirely fair: much of the cost-cutting was done before he arrived, and the current crop of hits was greenlighted by Mark Canton, Mr Calley's unloved predecessor.
Wales have only beaten Poland once in their history, back in 1973, but despite the scoreline did not look outclassed by the current crop rated 37 places above them in the Fifa rankings.
Local people were concerned about the damage to the environment caused by growing just one crop.
The company knew the crop would be short but was surprised by how much.
Officials said crop farmers had also been badly affected by the ongoing snowy conditions.
The first successful commercial crop was cultivated in Virginia in 1612 by Englishman John Rolfe.
Despite all their efforts, the protesters failed to destroy the crop, which was re-planted by the farmer.
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