seed corn

The Seed Corn Gospel Train is lost to the mists of time, but I'm pretty sure I can still hear the choir singing as the old guard educates a new generation about traditional farm methods and old equipment.

The Blenheim facility is located in Chatham-Kent in Southwestern Ontario, which is the primary region for seed corn production in Canada.

It was there in your hand, and you for sure didn't want to eat the seed corn--you eat the seed corn, you had none to plant for next year.

Hybrid seed corn companies start to harvest seed corn when the black layer has just started to move away from the tip where it is attached to the cob.

Prairie Brand is a seed company that markets seed corn, soybeans, alfalfa and specialty seed across western Corn Belt states through more than 400 dealers.

With the rising cost of seed corn, it is imperative to make sure that every seed is planted accurately and precisely within the seed furrow for maximum yield potential.

There will be a modest seed corn fund available to develop collaborative work, for example, to develop case studies.

US pesticide maker Dow Agrosciences said yesterday it had agreed to buy Colorado-based hybrid seed corn firm Grand Valley Hybrids to strengthen its western US silage business and its Mycogen Seeds brand.

AMHCA has been planting the "seed corn" for many years and it now appears positive results are beginning to blossom.

When I think of the state of New York's finances, I often think of the term in farming "eating your seed corn." Before a farmer sells or eats the corn he has harvested, he puts aside part of his crop as seed for next year's planting.

The Challenge which ran from September to November involved up to 100 participating businesses each being given pounds 50 seed corn capital donated by HSBC Bank and asked to use their entrepreneurial skills and ingenuity to grow that sum over the three month period.

That would act as seed corn. You'd get a double contribution with cash coming from employer and employee.

Royal Loomis is a local farm boy, lovely to look at but interested only in seed corn and chickens.