The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
Joanna Southcott
SummerLandNextCornDistressOur
This means that they are bound by law and custom to plough the fields of their masters, harvest the corn, gather it into barns, and thresh and winnow the grain; they must also mow and carry home the hay, cut and collect wood, and perform all manner of tasks of this kind.
Jean Froissart
HomeLawHarvestKindWoodCorn
If I used to say that Indonesia would be free when the corn ripens, I can now say that Indonesia will be free before it blossoms.
Sukarno
FreeI CanNowSayWillCorn
In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.
Mireille Guiliano
MeCornPoisonManyArtificialToo
We used to go around tipping outhouses over, or turning over corn shocks on Halloween. Anything to be mean.
Loretta Lynn
GoMeanOverCornAnythingUsed
When I was a kid, Halloween was strictly a starchy-vegetable-only holiday, with pumpkins and Indian corn on the front stoop; there was nothing electric, nothing inflatable, nothing with latex membranes or strobes.
Susan Orlean
HolidayNothingKidCornHalloween
Most corn is combine harvested, which means it's picked and shelled in the field - but that's rough on the corn because the husk is more likely to be scratched or cracked.
Ken Kercheval
MoreCornBecauseRoughMostMeans
Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
EasyYouLooksFarmingPencilCorn
If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.
Bernie Sanders
FoodYouKnowWantCornHigh
I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.
Wayne Grady
ThinkCornBoxesRatherThanAround
I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
Barbara McClintock
GreatPlantsFindKnowCornThem
The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.
John Bright
LawPriceNowCornKeepWheat
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.
Jeff Goodell
AmericaTaxCornUpTwiceFour
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
Torquato Tasso
WisdomDayBusyHarvestCornMust
I maintain that the existing corn laws are bad, because they have given a monopoly of food to the landed interest over every other class and over every other interest in the kingdom.
Joseph Hume
FoodBadClassOverMonopolyCorn
Manufacturing is the seed corn for other jobs in the U.S.
Peter Navarro
SeedManufacturingCornOtherJobs
If you're a commodity corn farmer in Iowa, you're locked into an infrastructure that keeps you a commodity corn farmer.
Kimbal Musk
FarmerYouCornInfrastructureIowa
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
David F. Houston
GrassCornLeftFeedProductive
We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.'
Axl Rose
SayingRosesCornGunsGetSomebody
I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
Taj Mahal
EnoughOldCornWithoutOld Enough
Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.
Vinod Khosla
PurposeBadOthersAlwaysCornBeen
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.
Jeremy Rifkin
YouWeedsCornBecauseYourMeans
A woman brought her child with an abscess in the lower part of the back, and offered as much corn as she could carry for some medicine; we administered to it of course very cheerfully.
Meriwether Lewis
WomanChildMedicineBackSheCorn
We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock.
Tom Vilsack
GrowYouKindWillEconomyCorn
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