field corn
noun
: corn (such as dent corn or flint corn) with starchy kernels that are used especially as livestock feed or processed into food products (such as cornmeal, corn oil, and corn syrup) or ethanol
Examples of field corn in a Sentence
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Traditional street corn is more of a field corn.
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Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 May 2021
Other varieties include dent or field corn, flour corn, and today’s subject: popcorn.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
When just picked, sweet corn has at least twice the sugar content of field corn.
—Bee Wilson, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
One of the studies analyzed field corn, lettuce and tomatoes grown in soil fertilized with MWRD sludge.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
The rest is mostly field corn, which is used to make biofuels, animal feed and food additives.
—Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
Some farmers were forced to wait until early June to begin planting their field corn, two months later than normal.
—Julian Epp, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
While seed corn makes up less than one percent of the corn grown in the U.S. by acreage, commercial field corn exports rely on these hybrid seeds, making detasseling an essential part of the $75 billion industry.
—Julian Epp, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
The corn source depends on the type, with Iowa bringing in nearly 2.3 billion bushels of field corn, followed by Illinois with about 2.1 billion and Nebraska with almost 1.8 billion.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 May 2021
Other varieties include dent or field corn, flour corn, and today’s subject: popcorn.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
When just picked, sweet corn has at least twice the sugar content of field corn.
—Bee Wilson, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
One of the studies analyzed field corn, lettuce and tomatoes grown in soil fertilized with MWRD sludge.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
The rest is mostly field corn, which is used to make biofuels, animal feed and food additives.
—Deepak Ray, The Conversation, 13 May 2022
Some farmers were forced to wait until early June to begin planting their field corn, two months later than normal.
—Julian Epp, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
While seed corn makes up less than one percent of the corn grown in the U.S. by acreage, commercial field corn exports rely on these hybrid seeds, making detasseling an essential part of the $75 billion industry.
—Julian Epp, The New Republic, 5 Nov. 2021
The corn source depends on the type, with Iowa bringing in nearly 2.3 billion bushels of field corn, followed by Illinois with about 2.1 billion and Nebraska with almost 1.8 billion.
—Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 11 Nov. 2021
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