Sentence examples for corn harvesting from inspiring English sources

"Our people spent thousands of years growing corn, harvesting corn and making it into masa and tortillas every single day," said Hugo Ortega, the Mexico City-born chef at Hugo's restaurant in Houston.

In 2002 the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the subsidies, released a report claiming the opposite: "Corn-ethanol yields 34% more energy than it takes to produce it, including growing the corn, harvesting it, transporting it, and distilling it into ethanol .This might have seemed the end of the matter.

Corn (maize) harvesting is performed by mechanical corn pickers that snap the ears from the stalk so that only the grain and cobs are harvested.

Above, a farmer shows corn harvested last year.

The corn harvest is expected to be completed this month.

In November, there will be cider making, a corn harvest and bacon-, sausage- and scrapple-making.

"Last year was the worst corn harvest in a century," he said.

The nation's corn harvest this year is about 10.4 billion bushels, 90percentt of which will go into nonfood uses.

But Zimbabwe officials insist that the corn harvest will total 2.4 million tons, the largest in decades.

The entire 2000 StarLink crop amounted to less than one-half of 1percentt of the nation's corn harvest.

After a disastrous corn harvest in 2005, almost five million of its 13 million people needed emergency food aid.