Sentence examples for increased corn from inspiring English sources

The result is that "many of the increased corn acres in 2007 are going back to soybeans," he said.

The nation increased corn shipments more than sixfold in the last year as the global price doubled.

Since 1980, he said, farmers have increased corn yields by 80 percent while at the same time reducing their nitrate use by 4 percent through precision farming.

In 2006, ethanol accounted for only 3.5percentt of America's gasoline supplies, despite increased corn production (and the corresponding environmental effects — including water shortages, soil erosion and fertilizer run off).

In scenario C, all increased corn production (and increased irrigation) was restricted to the 12 Midwestern states.

The added N advanced growth stages as well as increased corn heights and CMRs at any given time.

For example, increased corn-ethanol production is likely to lead to further biodiversity losses [2], [3], but preference for next-generation perennial biomass crops such as switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) or mixed-grass prairie [4] may actually provide vast new acreage of available habitat for animals that require perennial grassland to survive and reproduce [2].

Yet even with increasing corn yields, there are doubts about whether U.S. land and water resources can support the projected production.

Potash is one of three main plant nutrients, along with phosphate and nitrogen, and is used widely to increase corn and soybean yields.

He thought that he could increase corn crops by cross-breeding and inbreeding, and in 1922, working with a Chinese strain and one supplied by the plant geneticist Donald Jones, he developed what became the first commercially successful hybrid corn.

"What amazes me," said Robert L. Thompson, an agriculture specialist at the University of Illinois, "is that we have been able to greatly increase corn exports while also using it for ethanol.