overplant

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overplant

(ˌəʊvəˈplɑːnt)
vb (tr)
(Agriculture) to plant more than is necessary or possible to sustain
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The overplanting can result in thousands of pounds of excess produce that never make it to stores or restaurants.
The project objective was to evaluate the practice of overplanting of oyster seed on the existing shell bed as a predator deterrence option to reduce or eliminate predation loss to cownose rays of those oyster seed when planted for either restoration or commercial purposes.
OK, so maybe you buy my spiel on overplanting, but you're in Napa and you saw me at the Vineyard Economics Seminar.
Many of them migrated west from crowded, crime-ridden northeastern cities, many others from Southern lands destroyed by rampaging Union armies during the war, or lands just worn out from overplanting. The Southern ranks included thousands of blacks, many of whom sought a fresh start out from under the grim, deadly serious post-war Reconstruction conflict between Southern whites and the federal government.
The inspectors who check for "overplanting" are notoriously discriminatory.
However, in recent years Merlot's popularity has diminished somewhat; this combined with overplanting in some areas has resulted in lower grape prices.
overplanting. (58) This drives down prices for the commodity, often
In a cultivated garden overplanting and cleaning-up of plant and animal litter interferes with the natural cycle of soil replenishment.