21.   Luck has turned for some corn farmers, too.

22.   Nevertheless, everybody from corn farmers to government officials were sounding more encouraged than discouraged Thursday.

23.   Opposing a binding treaty are car makers and corn farmers, steel mills and oil refineries, electricity producers and the coal miners who stoke their boilers.

24.   Soybeans prices fell amid increasing fears that corn farmers will instead plant soybeans this year because of the rain and flooding.

25.   Soybean prices plunged to a four-week low after the government said some corn farmers will switch washed-out acres to soybeans, boosting expectations for a bumper crop.

26.   Strom, the corn farmer, looks forward to a world where financial transactions are simpler.

27.   The corn farmer calls it corn smut.

28.   The ETBE tax credit was backed by agriculture interests, which said it would provide new markets for American corn farmers, whose crops are used to produce ethanol.

29.   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.

30.   We spent the day on a boat visiting three of the villages with Tomas, a local corn farmer who freelances as a guide.