How to Use cash crop in a Sentence

cash crop

noun
  • The community grew cash crops such as cotton and corn and raised livestock.
    — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Dec. 2025
  • In the fields around the Quad Cities in northwest Illinois, the state’s biggest cash crops look amazing these days.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2025
  • And any sensible apple grower in Ontario knew their cash crop would be the McIntosh.
    — Mark Dent, HubSpot, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This approach may extend the cover crop growing season without disrupting cash crop harvest.
    — Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • On the plantation, horses pulled plows and other heavy machinery and cultivated between miles of cash crops.
    — Bitter Kalli august 19, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Farmers are forced into buying this seed for their crops to meet international harvest standards of cash crops like cotton, coffee, and tobacco for the export market.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Unlike Petroski, owner Andy Beckstoffer believes that with the proper adjustments, his cash crop will be just fine.
    — Senior Wine Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Cover crops are plants grown to protect the soil and improve soil conditions, typically during periods where the soil would otherwise be bare, such as between cash crop growing seasons.
    — Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • Antoine’s advancements in the propagation of pecan trees that produced high-quality pecans of reproducible form, then, resulted in these nuts being cultivated as a cash crop that could be mass produced.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Jan. 2026
  • Other farmers, Hoekema said, are already considering moving on from water-intensive cash crops like potatoes, sugar beets and soybeans in favor of alfalfa or wheat.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Burley tobacco, raised by settlers from Kentucky and Tennessee, was the cash crop that fueled Weston’s booming economy.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Drones can also access fields when wet soil conditions prevent ground equipment from operating after cash crop harvest, reducing compaction, and helping farmers take advantage of narrow planting windows.
    — Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026
  • Most previous studies have only focused on the former cash crop in the southern Levant, which today includes much of Israel, Palestine, Jordan, and Lebanon.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Both began commercial operations, Lamon growing cash crops and Hutchings operating a hotel.
    — Michael Childers, The Conversation, 31 July 2025

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