The next summer, 1794, corn grew dear, and distress began in our land.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
Corn is a greedy crop, as farmers will tell you.
As maize became important for human food worldwide, modern agricultural research on maize breeding continued the corn breeding begun thousands of years ago in the Central American highlands.
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.
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
With an open trade in corn and a fixed duty we should have every man in the country fully fed and happy, instead of our present situation in which so much distress exists - distress of our own producing.
As a young girl, I saw commitment in my grandmother, who helped Grandpa homestead our farm on the Kansas prairie. Somehow they outlasted the Dust Bowl, the Depression, and the tornadoes that terrorize the Great Plains.
Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.
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.