white crop

plural white crops

1. obsoleteagricultureA cereal crop; a crop which turns from green to white or yellow as it ripens

   22. White Crops—are such as become bleached, or turn white and dry while ripening their seed; such are all the various kinds of grain.

   1837 August 15, “Explanation of Terms”, in The Farmers' Cabinet, Philadelphia, Vol.II No.2 p.26

   1 more example

   Commencing, say, with potatoes, the small farmer will afterwards grow two or three white crops in succession, and get in addition a catch-crop of turnips after rye (invariably), sometimes sowing carrots in wheat or flax.

   1870 Augustus Voelcker and H.M. Jenkins, "Report on the Agriculture of Belgium" in The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 2nd Ser. Vol.6 p.18