Sentence examples for for growing corn from inspiring English sources

The same is true for growing corn to produce ethanol.

The soil was so fertile that Kentucky was "legendary for growing corn".

Farmers receive subsidies for growing corn, refineries for mixing it into fuels, service stations for installing pumps to sell it and consumers for buying it.

The SPI values are dominated by machinery use (causing fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emissions) and fertilizer use for growing corn.

Nitrogen rich wastewater from monosodium glutamate industry (MSG) and paper-mill wastewater were used in this study as low cost fertilizers for growing corn, a common fuel crop.

Hence, we report for the first time that the MSG-wastewater can be used for growing corn as a low cost green practice without adverse affects on the soil properties.

It isn't just the matter of growing corn for ethanol, which is already straining water supplies.

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.

For example, the process of growing corn to produce ethanol consumes fossil fuels in farming equipment, in fertilizer manufacturing, in corn transportation, and in ethanol distillation.

The Gallinari family has lived here for generations, growing corn and wheat, and raising pigs, cows and chickens.

A credible G.O.P. Presidential candidate must also recognize that some vulnerable groups in American society do require government protection — for example, industrial-scale farmers growing corn for ethanol.