Word: corns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of a good lunch: May be some pumpernickel and ham or something; a fat sandwich and some corn chips; something breefy, a lot of meat...
...tend to joke about what other people think," Streyffeler says. "My debate partner is from Wisconsin, and we'll just sit there and tell jokes about cows, corn and cheese...
...bushels per acre of soybeans. That went up to 40.5 bushels per acre before the harvest began. "That is the distinguishing feature," claims economist Collins. "I've never seen an estimate move so far above the trend line. Statistically, it is one chance in a hundred." The average for corn leaped from 127 bushels to 134 bushels per acre...
...wounded to have faith. His income had been chopped in half by the unceasing rain of the year before; he and his wife Julie got by only because of a nursery operation that she had started in plastic greenhouses. But last week, as his trucks filled with corn and soybeans lumbered off to storage bins, Hurst could pause with Julie and exult, "I love the harvest season...
Early on, Peter Wenstrand, of Essex, Iowa, who is head of the National Corn Growers Association, began to feel a special excitement. His crops had grown at visibly record rates. "I'd never seen Iowa so green in June," he says. In late July the corn pollinated in textbook order, and still there were none of the legendary 100 degrees days that pound crops at crucial moments of development. By August, Blake Hurst, nearby in Missouri, was beginning to be a believer. The family decided to cut some green corn for silage. The stalks and ears of corn were...