Sentence examples similar to quarters of corn from inspiring English sources

Such foot-dragging reflects passionate public opposition to the crops in many parts of Europe, even as more than three-quarters of corn, soybeans and sugar beets in the United States are genetically modified.

A bowl of "rustic chicken soup" was a simple broth with a drumstick, potatoes and a quarter-ear of corn dumped into it.

The spring-summer season corn accounts for about three quarters of the total corn production in the country.

In the United States, one quarter of the corn crop goes to biofuels.

In May three-quarters of the corn was judged in good or excellent condition by America's Department of Agriculture.

About half of the soybeans and a quarter of the corn grown in the United States last year were genetically modified.

Farmers in the area lost up to three-quarters of their corn and soya bean crops to this year's drought.

On one estimate, GMOs made up more than half the world's soya crop by area, a quarter of its corn and over a tenth of its cotton.Monsanto still dominates the $5.6 billion market for agricultural biotechnology.

The reason is that about half the soybeans and a quarter of the corn grown in the United States contain genes from bacteria that make the plants resistant to herbicides or insects.

"The two things that make or break us are the whims of a financial market and weather," said John Michael Pillow, 41, who farms the land that borders the Harts, and who lost three-quarters of his corn crop this year, his first as sole owner of the family farm.

Three-quarters of all corn has atrazine applied.