Quotes About Corn

In Europe, corn (wheat) is the major crop, and a staple part of our diets

Manufacturers would prefer to add five different types of sugar, and list them individually, than to use just a single source of sweetness and have it be ingredient number one on their label. So you'll often see things like molasses, coconut nectar, corn syrup, barley malt, and more listed, when they all add up to the same thing: a sugar rush.

see a little village a mile ahead of us with a venerable church on a mound in the middle of it gravely presiding over the surrounding wide parish of corn.

One will never remember A greater thing when one dies Than sunlight falling aslant long rows of corn, Or rainy days heavy with grey sullen skies.

If your corn has a herbicide-tolerant gene, it means you can spray your herbicides and kill the weeds; you won't kill your corn because it's producing a gene that makes it tolerant of the herbicide.

Whatever moisture is left in the popcorn when it gets from harvest to bag to your popper is what's going to determine how well the corn pops.

I am America's number-one fan. I like your food. Especially corn flakes.

I'm a lover of fairs and corn dogs.

You can't drive through Iowa and not think about farming: No less than 85 percent of the land in the state is devoted to farms, many of them more than 1,000 acres. This is the place where seeds are sown. It's where farmers grow the corn that will be fed to pigs as grain or fed to you as syrup or fermented to ethanol for your gas tank.

There was double cause for celebration that night: this windfall of corn, and another birth. Mistress Susana White had produced a baby son, the first of the colonists' children to be born on American soil. They christened him Peregrine: 'pilgrim'.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

Wapsie Valley, known for producing red kernels. (The legend behind Wapsie Valley is that at corn shuckings, any man who found a red kernel could kiss the girl of his choice, and Wapsie Valley could turn an innocent gathering into a free-for-all.)

Gin is really nothing more than a flavored vodka whose predominant flavor is juniper, so gin drinkers who say they won't drink vodka misunderstand the nature of their addiction. The base spirit itself is generally a mixture of barley, rye, and perhaps wheat or corn.

I look out past the corn and the wheat and wonder how many sets of bones are buried, unspoken, keeping their stories to themselves in the dirt. I wonder if they know the sky is bright blue today and the air smells sweet. I wonder if they still listen in.

Barley malt has a really deep, rich taste. A lot of manufacturers have switched over to corn syrup over the years because it's a cheaper sweetener, but it doesn't have the flavor.

Baked Pork Chops in Creamed Corn 4 pork chops 2 Tbsp. oil 1 can creamed corn ½ onion, chopped ¼ cup milk salt and pepper Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Brown pork chops in oil, then place in baking dish. Mix together creamed corn, chopped onion, milk, salt, and pepper. Pour over pork chops and bake for about 2 hours or until fork-tender. Serves 4.

I told you it was a backwoods. They probably still practice corn sacrifice.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world. In some part, this is due to irrigation issues and inhospitable climes. Egypt's dependence on wheat is also partially because for decades it has been cheaper to import wheat, corn, soy and barley from the U.S. than to grow it locally.

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal handouts between 1995 and 2005 - twice as much as wheat subsidies and four times as much as soybeans. Ethanol itself is propped up by hefty subsidies, including a fifty-one-cent-per-gallon tax allowance for refiners.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.