Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...across the nation's grain belt last week, farmers were bringing in the third bin-busting wheat crop in a row. Huge plantings of soybeans, corn and other grains are completed and, weather permitting, prospects for bumper yields of these crops also are as bright as spring sunshine. All this is the best of news to inflation-pinched consumers, who can now count on relatively moderate increases in food prices. Despite the big winter run-up in fruit and vegetable prices, caused by Eastern freeze and Western drought, the Government predicts that food prices this year will rise somewhere...
Mangelsdorf, the other retired faculty member receiving an honorary degree today, is best known for his studies on hybrid corn seeds, which have opened up new areas of basic and applied research on this major food crop...
...played a major role in helping develop hybrid seed corn that does not require the costly process of removing corn tassels by hand, and in developing winter wheat with rustresistant stems...
...prices back up is to cut production, but that is difficult for nations such as Cuba and the Dominican Republic, which depend on sugar for most of their foreign-currency earnings. Meanwhile, the U.S. sugar industry faces another threat: the growing use by commercial food processors of high-fructose corn syrup, a sweetener that is cheaper than sugar even at present prices...
...purple cow, but they are rubbernecking at an enormous piebald blue one emblazoned on Farmer Hilbert Schneider's 75-year-old barn at Johnson Creek, 34 miles east of Madison on Interstate 94. The blue cow, shown fullface, peers out from a halo of stars, sunbursts and corn stalks in a dazzling 1,530-sq.-ft. mural...