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Corn Belt
Corn Belt major agricultural region of the U.S. Midwest where corn acreage once exceeded that of any other crop. It is now commonly called the Feed Grains and Livestock Belt. Located in the north central plains, it is centered in Iowa and Illinois and extends into S Minnesota, SE South Dakota, E Nebraska, NE Kansas, N Missouri, Indiana, and W Ohio. Large-scale commercial and mechanized farming prevails in this region of deep, fertile, well-drained soils and long, hot, humid summers. The belt produces much of the U.S. corn crop, but agriculture has diversified; soybeans are an important yield. Winter wheat and alfalfa are also significant crops in the area.
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Corn.(growing corn)
Magazine article from: Countryside & Small Stock Journal; 3/1/1999; 700+ words
; ...conditions. At first glance, flour corn resembles flint corn in size and shape, but it lacks...kernels are dried. Some flour kernel corns have an improved amino acid balance...Pearl popcorn is similar to flint corn, but the kernels are smaller...
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CORN PRODUCTION UP; SELF-SUFFICIENCY IN CORNS ACHIEVED.
Magazine article from: Indonesian Commercial Newsletter; 4/13/1999; 700+ words
; ...the productivity of corns has also increased...efforts at increasing corn production have been...Rice, Soybean, and Corns in 2001). In 1999, the acreage of corn plantation is about...the prices of such corns to remain stable. Corn imports down The...
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Corn prices take on new economics.(Special Report: 2009 Outlook)
Magazine article from: Feedstuffs; 11/3/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...economists had a model of annual average corn prices that used the ratio of ending stocks to use to explain the rise and fall of the corn market. The relationship is shown in Figure...measure of the abundance or scarcity of corn. As the ratio declines, corn become scarcer...
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CORN: IT'S FUN TO GROW AND MORE FUN TO EAT
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN); 7/21/1996; 700+ words
; ...upon America in the form of the tastiest grass on earth. Corn. Corn, or maize, or Zea Mays as it is botanically classified...golden swath of late summer wheat across the Heartland. Corn has earned its place in American history better than any...
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Corn Reigns Tall As All-American Grain
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/2/1993; ; 700+ words
; We raise a lot of corn in this country - half the world's crop. Even after exporting...percent of that, we still eat a lot of cornflakes, cornbread, corn-on-the-cob, canned corn, popcorn, cornmeal mush and chocolate pudding (thickened...
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Corn
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/10/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Even though he's up to his corns in ears, and even though he's featuring enough corn dishes on his menu to satisfy...s not corny. However, corn is an obvious ingredient in...walls have botanical prints of corn and other vegetables, and...
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Corn is no longer a bad joke
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 1/31/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...AMERICAN author Garrison Keillor wrote: "Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn." Good news for corn lovers -- over the years, varieties of sweet corn available to the home gardener and shopper have improved. Forget the coarse, tough...
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Corn craze
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 7/5/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...season -- a time when 5,000 boxes of corn a day are delivered to stores and farmers...is time to indulge, to venture beyond corn boiled in sugar water. Throughout the...puddings and serving up a perennial favorite, corn on the cob, with flair. In San Ramon...
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Corn's rarefied place in our hemisphere
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/8/1992; ; 700+ words
; THE STORY OF CORN By Betty Fussell Knopf, 356 pp., illlustrated...certainly not worthy of an entire book -- but corn is probably more important than almost...sustained ancient Indians for centuries. Corn predominated in this hemisphere until the...
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CORN: THE ALL-AMERICAN FAVORITE IS BACK IN SEASON.(Living Today)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 7/14/1987; 700+ words
; ...table this summer as a steaming platter of fresh corn on the cob. Make sure the corn is fresh and not overcooked, so the kernels burst...butter, enough to run down your arms. In Europe, corn on the cob is considered fit only for pigs. In...
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Corn Syrup
Book article from: How Products Are Made
Corn Syrup Background Corn syrup is one of several natural sweeteners derived from corn starch. It is used in a wide variety of food products including cookies, crackers, catsups, cereals, flavored yogurts, ice cream, preserved meats, canned...
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Corn
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
Corn First grown in Mexico about 5,000 years ago, corn soon became the most important food crop in Central and North...Native Americans, Maya, Aztecs, and other Indians worshiped corn gods and developed a variety of myths about the origin...
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Corn (Maize)
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
Corn (Maize) Resources According to Native American...the creation of man, but that maize, or corn as Europeans came to call it, was already...for nourishment, and to have thought of the corn plant as a second mother (the first mother...
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corn
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
corn in botany. The name corn is given to the leading cereal crop of any major region. In England corn means wheat; in Scotland and Ireland, oats. The grain called corn in the United States is Indian corn or maize ( Zea mays ). The part of...
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SIC 0115 Corn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
SIC 0115 CORN This entry includes establishments primarily engaged in the production of field corn for grain or seed. Establishments primarily engaged in the production of sweet corn are classified under SIC 0161: Vegetables...
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