21.   The raw products are capable of carrying disease or pests like the fruit fly, which can threaten American crops.

22.   Villagers who reap benefits from wildlife will be less likely to shoot elephants that threaten their crops and more likely to police poachers.

23.   Excessive heat could threaten struggling crops as temperatures are predicted to be in the triple digits in some areas.

24.   Wheat futures also were boosted by reports of strong export sales and on continued dryness in the Southern Plains growing region that is threatening the crop there.

25.   Wildfires threaten crops, flights.

26.   Crops have been threatened by black pod disease.

27.   Drought also threatens cereal crops in southern Africa, increasing food import requirements.

28.   Experts said cotton and corn crops were also threatened.

29.   Widespread rain last week along the Queensland coast helped producing regions, but particularly Mackay and Bundaberg, where cane crops had been threatened by prolonged dry conditons.

30.   Wheat prices spurted ahead to three-year high points in the United States as a cold snap in US producer regions threatened crops.