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9 unusual facts about Maize


Bradgate, Iowa

Avery built his house in November 1859 and planted corn the following spring.

Evogene

The company cooperates with some of the leading seed companies around the world, among them, Syngenta, DuPont, Monsanto and Bayer, in order to develop and commercialize its technology, especially with regard to corn, soy and wheat.

Fulton Allem

By the time he came into the world, his family had the largest corn farm in the southern hemisphere and the only privately owned grain silos in South Africa.

Great Horkesley

Horkesley is a modern name for the original Saxon name of "Horkaslay" which means "farm land for herds" (mainly sheep) though now it has many fields growing a variety of crops from corn to hemp.

Kent, British Columbia

However, this disaster unexpectedly benefited Kent as corn became the new primary agricultural product of the region, leading to Agassiz's claim as the "Corn Capital of BC"; this claim is still used today.

Presencia de América Latina

From her surge American corn and Old World wheat, nourishment that sustains the bases of industrialization, technology and science, represented as an intricate steel machine on the upper part of the panel.

SS Monte Nevoso

In early October 1932 Monte Nevoso left the port of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina with a cargo of 8600 tons of Wheat, Maize and Linseeds, bound for Europe.

W. C. Bradley Co.

Today they form the base of the company's Farm Division with 4,000 acres (16 km²) of row crops including peanuts, soybeans, corn, and wheat, 30,000 acres (120 km²) of timber, and a modern scientific swine-handling facility producing over 10,000 hogs per year for market.

Wagyu

Designed to mimic the diet that Japanese cattle were receiving, Wagyu cattle in the United States are fed a mixture of corn, alfalfa, barley and wheat straw.


2013 aflatoxin contamination

The European Commissions' Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) has reported 10 notifications of aflatoxin B1 in maize of European origin since the last maize harvest in autumn 2012.

Aid

In an interview in Germany's Der Spiegel magazine, Shikwati uses the example of food aid delivered to Kenya in the form of a shipment of corn from America.

Alakamisy Antivato

The most important crops are rice and potatoes, while other important agricultural products are maize, barley and soya.

Ambar

Hambar, a Balkan or Central European building for drying maize

Ambohidranandriana

The most important crops are rice and soya, while other important agricultural products are maize and potatoes.

Baldev Singh Dhillon

He worked at University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany from 1976–78, 1988–90 and 2007–11 in Maize breeding, genetics and Biotechnology.

Belwania

Instead of these two products rice, wheat, pulse, maize, mustard, grains etc. are also being produced by the farmers.

Benguela

Coffee, corn, sisal, sugarcane, and tobacco are grown in the interior regions of Angola and widely traded in Benguela.

Bolivia maize varieties

The indigenous cultures that played a key role in the differentiation of the native Bolivian maize races were the Aymara in the north, the Sauces in central Bolivia, and the Yampara in the south.

Bronze Stalk Trophy

Designed by nationally recognized sculptor and DeKalb, Illinois (home to Northern Illinois University) artist Renee Bemis, the trophy depicts several cornstalks in tribute to the prevalence of maize around the respective home states of the rivals.

Champús

Champús is a drink popular in Peru, Ecuador and southwest Colombia (Departments of Valle del Cauca, Cauca and Nariño), made with maize, fruits such as lulo (also known as naranjilla), pineapple, quince or guanábana, sweetened with panela and seasoned with cinnamon, cloves and orange tree leaves.

Coat of arms of Kenya

The shield and lions stand on a silhouette of Mount Kenya containing in the foreground examples of Kenya agricultural produce - coffee, pyrethrum, sisal, tea, maize and pineapples.

Converse, Blackford County, Indiana

Soybeans and corn are the most popular crops grown in Blackford County, and over 65,000 acres are devoted to these two crops.

Coxcatlan Cave

The time period following this introduction of maize oriented agriculture is called the Coxcatlan Phase, which includes the years 5700-3825 BC.

Economic history of Nicaragua

The rich volcanic soils produced a wide array of products, including beans, peppers, corn, cocoa, and cassava (manioc).

Hugh Iltis

Hugh Hellmut Iltis (born April 7, 1925 in Brno, Czechoslovakia) is Professor Emeritus of Botany at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is best known for his discoveries in the domestication of corn (maize).

Italian traditional maize varieties

The agronomic, morphological and cytological characterization, and multi-variate analysis, of such and other accessions stored at the germplasm bank of the "Maize experimental station" in Bergamo, allowed the systematic classification of Italian traditional varieties.

Italian traditional maize varieties have been, according to historical, archaeological, botany, morphological, and genetic evidence, molded since the introduction of this exotic cereal crop from the Americas in the sixteenth century.

Latent Recordings

In recent years, the label has again become active in releasing work by other artists as well, including Jim Bryson, Ivy Mairi, Finlayson/Maize, Lee Harvey Osmond and Huron.

Lesser cane rat

An important food item is often elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) but this rat is opportunistic and will also feed on crops such as groundnut, maize, sweet potato, cassava and pumpkin.

Magallu

The village is surrounded by fertile paddy, maize fields and apart from Agriculture being the predominant occupation of the people staying here, Magallu also drew upon the services of blacksmiths, laundryworkers, goldsmiths and people from other working classes making it a complete mixture, thus strengthening the distinctive spirit of our culture and our era- "Unity in diversity".

Magic Maize

Magic Maize is a short children's novel written and illustrated by Mary and Conrad Buff.

Manombo Sud

The most important crops are cassava and sugarcane, while other important agricultural products are maize and lima beans.

Mississippian culture

Major sites such as Spiro and the Battle Mound Site are in the Arkansas River and Red River Valleys, the largest and most fertile of the waterways in the Caddoan region, where maize agriculture would have been the most productive.

Nerang, Queensland

Sugar and maize were grown by farmers along the upper reaches of the river.

Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal

This city serves surrounding maize, livestock and dairy farmers as well as workers connected to Karbochem, Mittal Steel South Africa (previously ISPAT/ISCOR), the textile and service industry.

Phytolith

Phytolith analyses from Bolivia suggest that several varieties of maize were present in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia almost 1000 years before the Tiwanaku expansion, when it was previously thought to have been introduced in the region.

Plant breeding in Nepal

Under Tribhuvan University system, IAAS Rampur have also research on breeding major crops including rice, wheat, maize and grain legumes.

Quality Protein Maize

It was developed by Dr. Surinder Vasal and Dr. Evangelina Villegas at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) in the late 1990s.

Recombinant DNA

;Herbicide-resistant crops : commercial varieties of important agricultural crops (including soy, maize/corn, sorghum, canola, alfalfa and cotton) have been developed that incorporate a recombinant gene that results in resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (trade name Roundup), and simplifies weed control by glyphosate application.

Saint-Sulpice-de-Ruffec

Agricultural: bovine and crops mainly maize, oil seed rape and sunflowers, diversification into raising of Alpaca s, for wool and breeding

Skydiggers

Since the band's sound had largely been defined by Maize and Cash's vocal harmonies, the band revised their sound somewhat for 1997's Desmond's Hip City, released on DROG Records.

Surinder Vasal

He worked with biochemist Dr. Evangelina Villegas for 35 years to develop a protein enriched form of maize in the 1970s.

The American Chestnut Foundation

TACF was founded in 1983 by a group of prominent plant scientists, including Nobel Prize-winning plant breeder Norman Borlaug; Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Garden; independent chestnut researcher Philip Rutter; and the late Charles Burnham, a Minnesota corn geneticist.

The Soft Machine

As such an agent he makes a time travel machine and takes on a gang of Mayan priests who use the Mayan calendar to control the minds of slave laborers used for planting maize.

Tongobory

The most important crops are maize and beans, while other important agricultural products are sweet potatos and lima beans.

Vetiveria nigritana

Under certain forms of consistent cultivation, it was discovered that Vetiveria nigratana was beneficial in increasing maize yields by 49.1% and cassava yields by 3.2% when compared to fields that were not currently using the agricultural practice in Nigeria.

W. W. Fosdick

Fosdick’s lyrical poetry such as Ariel, The Maize The Catawba,The Thrush, The Pawpaw, Light and Night, and Lute and Love often reflected his Mid-Western roots and at times were put to music by composers like Poulton and William Vincent.

West

The ancient Aztecs believed that the West was the realm of the great goddess of water, mist, and maize.

Wuliangye

It specializes in manufacturing baijiu, and is best known for Wuliangye, made from five organic grains: Proso millet, corn, glutinous rice, long grain rice and wheat.

Yezin Agricultural University

The farms growing the specialized crops are: paddy in Hmawbi in Yangon Region; maize and cereals in Aungban in Shan State; pulse and oil crops in Magway in Magway Region; cotton in Nangyaw in Mandalay Region; sugarcane in Nyaungbintha in Bago Region; perennial crops in Hpa Auk in Mon State, and horticultural crops in Hlegu in Yangon Region.


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