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They are called bumper crops for a reason. Once in a while you get a really big crop. Once in a while you get a really small crop. That's farming. In this case it will mean more profit (or less loss) for ethanol, meat, dairy, and egg producers but lower prices for farmers.
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Dear Word Detective: We recently moved out into the country and have heard the phrase "bumper crop" thrown about. Where did this phrase originate? My husband thinks that there must be something called a bumper at the top of a grain bin and when the bin is full there is a "bumper crop." What do you think?
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Bumper Crop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bumper Crop is a collection of short fiction by Joe R. Lansdale published in 2004. In his introduction, he cites it as the companion piece to High Cotton , because he had so many stories which didn...
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Yvette Gunther, from an entertainment group of seniors who range in age from 65 to 85 called Cream of the Crop, performs the Chinese Palace dance. ... A unique troupe of performers called Cream of the Crop descended on Heritage Club of Denver Tech Center on Tuesday to bring smiles, some laughter and a little holiday spirit...
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by Conrad Quilty-Harper posted Sep 16th 2007 at 6:27PM ... HP has a whole lotta' new laptops to launch, possibly at a press conference this Tuesday if Notebook Italia is on the money. ... The designations are a real mouthful, so brace yourself: in all, we could be looking at Pavilions numbered dv2600, d6600, dv9600,
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Joe R. Lansdale, Bumper Crop (Golden Gryphon Press, 2004) ... Bumper Crop intentionally does not aspire to those heights, being a selection of tales that, though not his best (and many fall under the realm of "disappointing"), are particularly memorable for one reason or another.
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subspecies, also called race, a genetically distinct geographical subunit of a species. See also classification. ... Comment: Hot cereal: rice reveals bumper crop of genes. (This Week).(rice genome deciphered)
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