Sentence examples for crops of corn from inspiring English sources
Contemporary Maya are basically agricultural, raising crops of corn, beans, and squash.
John Vidal For five years, the farmers of Poço Redondo have suffered from a drought that has devastated the crops of corn and beans on which they depend.
They subsisted principally by farming, harvesting two or more crops of corn (maize) each year and growing several varieties of beans, squash, and gourds.
The men of a household wove cloth, herded sheep, and raised field and dune crops of corn (maize), squash, beans, and cotton.
Groups of women produced crops of corn (maize), beans, and squash, gathered wild foods, and prepared all clothing and most other residential goods.
Several senators from farm states said farm policy went astray when it began subsidizing every acre of land producing the basic commodity crops of corn, wheat, rice, soybeans and cotton, regardless of whether the farmer needed the money.
In the fields, in the shadow of giant billboards giving motivational advice or productivity targets, women in headscarves bend over crops of maize, corn and rice.
A25 BUSINESS DAY C1-16 Too Much of a Good Thing This season's bumper crop of corn threatens to further depress corn prices, potentially making this the most expensive harvest ever for the federal government's farm-subsidy program.
The simple reason for the dip in commodities prices, these experts say, is that we have too much of a good thing: too much gold; a bumper crop of corn; a glut of iron ore because the big three producers, Rio Tinto, Vale and BHP Billiton have all increased output.
This might make sense if the source of the fuel were, say, a crop of corn grown on barren land specifically for use as fuel, because the crop would have absorbed carbon dioxide as it grew, offsetting what it emits when ultimately burned.
On the steep slopes of the Western Upland, contour plowing and strip cropping of corn (maize) and hay reduce soil erosion, and in the Central Plain the sandy soils are protected from wind erosion by shelter belts of trees around fields and farmsteads.
