Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.
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Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
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.
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
In the Illinois State Capitol, in Springfield, farmer-legislators write the agriculture laws.
There's a fine line between patriotism and corn.
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.
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.
U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.
I have not been able to get any grain yet. It is all in the country, and the people talk instead of working.