I had the exact same issue. This fixed it for me, too:
"delete %APPDATA%\Factorio\crop-cache.dat"

Thanks!

Possible cause for the issue: I changed monitor settings just as Factorio was loading and it crashed out on me with a "missing sprite" error. After restarting Factorio the issue appeared. The ...

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