Sentence examples for corn for food from inspiring English sources

A summer drought that withered crops led to a spike in prices, hurting the livestock industry and others that depend on corn for food.

It applies to white Southerners' practice of cracking corn for food (think grits and corn bread) and the cracking of a whip when driving cattle.

The output of Hawaii is not corn for food or feed, but seeds that are shipped to the mainland, where they are further multiplied and eventually sold to farmers.

The mill is one of the biggest buyers of corn for food, which can fetch a price of as much as 70 cents a bushel more than corn for cattle feed.

Last week, in the latest example of the persistent differences, countries failed for a third time to break a deadlock over whether to allow imports of six varieties of bioengineered corn for food and feed made by Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Pioneer and Syngenta.

Provided there is still corn attached, animals will use the corn for food and may use some parts of the plant for bedding (or they may also eat parts of the plant).

Japan imports about 4 million tons of corn for foods intended for humans and 12 million tons of corn for animal feed.

Some farmers who planted StarLink say they were not told about 660-foot buffer zones mandated by the E.P.A. between StarLink corn and corn grown for food, and they say pollen may have drifted even longer distances, leading to cross-pollination with a neighbor's crop.

The decision, announced Friday, came in the face of objections from corn millers and others in the food industry, who warned that if the industrial corn cross-pollinated with or were mixed with corn used for food, it could lead to crumbly corn chips, soggy cereal, loaves of bread with soupy centers and corn dogs with inadequate coatings.

The generation of "sweet sorghum-like transgenic corn" will alleviate in part the increasing pressure of growing corn either for food or for biofuel since it would then be possible to use the grain for food and at the same time to extract fermentable sugars from the stem to use in ethanol production.

"The mere fact that USDA expects 1.4 billion bushels of U.S. corn to be left over after all demands are met is a signal that corn availability for food and feed has not been adversely impacted," he says.