Food supplies dropped. There was little to eat except corn bread and the meat of mules.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

By two thousand five, they say,farms in northern China produced about the same amount of corn per hectare as farms in the American Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

Corn harvests remain small. The researchers say farming methods in Sub-Saharan Africa need to improve or else poor quality soil will increase rural poverty.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

He and former American President Jimmy Carter worked with the Sasakawa Africa Association to help increase the quality and production of corn on the continent.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

Native American tribes once grew vegetables like beans and corn throughout the Chesapeake coastal plain.

VOA: special.2009.10.06

Snack foods made with corn are a six-billion-dollar industry in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

He was 16. John went to Judge Tone, the richest man in town, to collect a dollar for some corn the Judge Tone bought from John's father.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

"But it did cause major disruptions in the availability of food-grade corn.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

It tastes much sweeter then the starchier corn of the past.

VOA: special.2010.11.23

The women ground corn for bread, cooked and made pottery.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

But farmers had learned the hard way they couldn't rely on just one crop, so they planted more corn, peaches,and figs.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

Some energy experts and environmentalists have expressed skepticism about the benefits of biofuels, especially ethanol produced from corn.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

an endearing addition to the distant mountains,corn fields and lake a few dozen kilometers outside bustling Beijing.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Finally a canal company official showed up and set fire to sheaves of green corn to literally smoke the boatsmen out of the tunnel.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29