1.   A bumper crop would make it easier for Brazil to undercut U.S. soybean prices and gain world market share, traders said.

2.   Savanier said heavy spring frosts last year cost him most of his grape crop, and now bumper fruit crops were making him sell at a loss.

3.   The glut has sent prices plunging, and many fear the new crop will make matters worse.

4.   The ruined California crops could make Arizona produce too valuable to leave behind much surplus for distribution to the hungry, she says.

5.   The crop makes its own pesticide.

6.   Authorities around the world acknowledge that some genetically modified crops make their way into the food system.

7.   But the ISO said that the enormous sugar crop should not make prices fall in the short term.