A strong storm has blown through corn poppy meadow and some of the residents of the hive are now missing!
Fruit juices and smoothies represent a new risk to our health because of the amount of sugar the apparently healthy drinks contain, warn the US scientists who blew the whistle on corn syrup in soft drinks a decade ago.
Was it so a sleepless farmer could look out at the tractor ruts or watch empty husks blowing past the corn crib?
One is deer, which arrive each night around nine, García says, and the other is wind, which recently blew down a lot of his blue corn.
On a windy day this spring, his neighbor sprayed glyphosate on his fields, and some of the herbicide blew onto Mr. Von Arb's conventionally grown corn, killing the first few rows.
The corn rose over their heads and blew in waves, bending with the wind.
A farmer might grow a leggy strain of corn, prone to blowing down in a storm, if its kernels made the heartiest grits.
Best of all there are Kiefer's Morgenthau paintings from 2013, named for the US Treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau Jnr – whose plan it was in 1944 to transform Germany into a pre-industrial nation as a means of limiting her ability to fight future wars – and crammed with impasto stalks of corn that sometimes blow and bend, and sometimes reach for the blazing sky.
The contrast between old and new is hard to digest when you are there, listening to something as simple as air blowing through the layers of corn to balance its moisture, and watching as an old machine still sews 50-pound bulk bags of pure popcorn shut.
At Davenport Farms, in nearby Stone Ridge, the cantaloupes were submerged, while the corn crop had been blown down by strong winds.
