1.   The failure of the crop this year will create a food crisis.

2.   The real winners are farmers who will raise good crops this year and sell them at the current dizzying prices.

3.   Despite the cock hop problem, brewers seem very impressed with this years crop.

4.   And on top of that, there is a drought looming ahead, which may mean that maize crop this year in Zimbabwe may be a total failure.

5.   Argentina and Australia both had bumper crops this year.

6.   Arlen Blattner, a wheat farmer near Fowler, Kan., said his crop this year would not be even half his usual average.

7.   Both countries raised bumper crops this year and are underselling the U.S.

8.   Brazil and Argentina are expected to produce bumper crops this year.

9.   Brazil is on track to produce a record soybean crop this year, after December rains nourished crops, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

10.   A big cotton crop this year will be necessary to meet a rising global appetite for U.S. cotton.