Dubbed "the Model T for the 21st century," the funky-looking utility vehicle boasts biodegradable materials from the corn-based tires and roof to the seats stuffed with soy-based foam.
BY the time summer ends some people get tired of corn, tomatoes, eggplant, zucchini and beets.
The streets remain a colourful bazaar with hundreds of stands selling all kinds of goods, including shoes hanging from tree branches, corn roasted on the sidewalk, tires, pillows and even French champagne by the bucket.
Towns like Rockwell City, which proudly bills itself as "the Golden Buckle on the Corn Belt," look worn and tired, and the businesses that line the squares surrounding their elaborate courthouses are having a tough go of it.
Do we ever tire of good old plain corn on the cob?
Tired of farming tomatoes and corn in northeastern Tennessee, young Donald Wallace bought a house trailer and moved to Tampa to start a landscaping business with his father and brother.
The flies live in populations of 2,000 or so, each kept in a shoe-box-size container and fed a mixture of bananas and corn syrup of which they never seem to grow tired, Ms. Burke said.
Goodyear Tire and Rubber said recently that it would begin making tires containing a starchy filler compound derived from corn.
This effort by US social news editor Katie Rogers, who is really tired of reading your thinkpieces about the evils of candy corn.
Tobacco, cassava (manioc), feijão (beans), and corn (maize) are grown in the agricultural hinterland, and ceramic tiles, furniture, bicycles, and tires are produced in the city.
