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Crop insurance
* is an important risk management strategy for farmers.
* is based on market prices
  - primarily on yield
* is one of the best risk management tools available to producers today
  - most important risk management tools available to producers today
  - tool that citrus producers can use to help manage production and price risk
* is the risk management tool of choice for our nation's farmers
  - safety net legislators want to put underneath America's farmers
* offers financial protection against crop losses due to uncontrollable weather.

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Different crop
* Different Crops have different water requirements and respond differently to water stress.
* expand harvest season and help reduce harvest stresses.
* have different nutrient needs, and so grow better at different CF values
  - optimum growth under different levels of concentration
* reach full cover at different growth stages and times after planting.
* remove different amounts of minerals.
* require different pesticides, so variety limits exposure to any one type.
* respond to different fertility levels.
* use and replenish different minerals
  - different amounts of water over the course of the growing seasons

Energy crop
* are also more resistant to disease and pests and relatively inexpensive to grow.
* are crops developed and grown specifically for fuel
  - such as switch grass or poplar trees grown to produce fuels

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Field corn
* Most field corn has roots.
* can cross with sweet corn, making some of the sweet corn kernels starchy and flavorless.
* contains high amounts of starch and low sugars so fresh eating quality is poor.
* field crop
* is corn.
* is grown for feed, silage, and processing
  - in the United States on more acres than any other crop
  - on the most acreage

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Soft corn
* are result from bony prominences and are located between the toes
  - usually interdigital and form over the phalangeal condyles between the toes
* can occur between the toes.
* come between the toes and are very painful.
* is field corn.
* resemble open sores and develop between the toes as they rub against each other.

Fodder crop
* Many fodder crops are conserved as hay, chaffed or pulped.
* Some fodder crops are components of compound feeds.

Food crop
* Most food crops depend on bees
  - have thousands of varieties
* Some food crops are rice, corn, and beans.
* are less likely to be attacked by insects and can eliminate pesticides and herbicides
  - rice, maize, legumes, potatoes, rye and barley
  - usually mixed with cash crops to help ensure both sustenance and disposable income

Forage crop
* Most forage crops are grasses and legumes
  - perennials, but others are annuals
  - decline in nutritive value as they mature
  - develop large numbers of small roots close to the soil surface
* are essential to Northeast agriculture
  - much more salt tolerant than cereal and oilseed crops
* protect and improve the soil.

Important crop
* Most important crops provide food.
+ Monte Plata Province, Economy: Provinces of the Dominican Republic
  * The most important economic activity of the province is farming. Some important crops are sugar cane, cacao and fruits like orange.

Irrigated crop
* account for only a very small portion of the total agricultural production.
* are alfalfa, cotton, small grains and vegetables.

Minor crop
* are high value fruits, vegetables and nursery plants.
* have a major impact on U.S. agriculture.

New crop
* can contribute to the diversification of agriculture.
* push up above the ground, and animals give birth.

Nurse crop
* can provide temporary protection until grass cover emerges.
* continue to be the preferred method of weed control and seedling alfalfa.