11. Most of the families pay rent for the couple of acres they use to grow the corn that sustains them. 12. Others work in faraway mines and factories, while farmers graze cattle and grow corn. 13. Rather, Dole notes, Archer-Daniels owns grain elevators in Kansas, the state grows corn and Kansas has a fledgling ethanol industry. 14. Spring rain grows the corn, but Starr said that precipitation on four weekends last fall cut his attendance. 15. Suppose scientists could engineer drought-resistant crops so that farmers in arid regions of the world could grow corn in the midst of desert conditions. 16. That plan sparked an outcry from lawmakers from districts with powerful farming constituencies that grow the corn used in the alternative fuel. 17. The federal government would pay bonuses to the hospitals if they trained fewer doctors, just as it once paid corn farmers not to grow corn. 18. The Creator gave Titus permission to grow corn and Titus gave instructions to Roy to continue growing corn after he passed on. 19. The government program that means most to Rothermel and most other Midwestern farmers is the one that pays them billions of dollars a year to grow corn. 20. The villagers still have cattle and grow corn and root vegetables. |