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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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Title: New-crop carry: corn, wheat pointed down; beans up.
Author: Chip Flory
Publication: Pro Farmer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 15, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 34Issue: 15Page: 4

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Title: Get ready to push '07- and '08-crop corn sales.
Author: Chip Flory
Publication: Pro Farmer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 27, 2006
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Volume: 34Issue: 21Page: 4

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Originally published in 1913.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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Title: Root Rescuers.(protecting corn crop)
Author: Wayne Wenzel
Publication: Farm Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 13, 2006
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Title: High crop prices drive implement sales: record corn prices boost farmers' confidence to invest in equipment and convert set aside acres into crops.
Author: Marcia Hahn
Publication: Implement & Tractor (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 2007
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Volume: 122Issue: 3Page: 4(3)

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Title: NCGA survey reveals strengths, weaknesses of crop insurance programs.(National Corn Growers Association)
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Date: September 1, 2004
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Numerous efforts have been made to develop various indices using remote sensing data such as normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), vegetation condition index (VCI) and temperature condition index (TCI) for mapping and monitoring of drought and assessment of vegetation health and productivity. NDVI, soil moisture, surface temperature and rainfall are valuable sources of information for the estimation and prediction of crop conditions. In the present paper, we have considered NDVI, soil moisture, surface temperature and rainfall data of Iowa state, US, for 19 years for crop yield assessment and prediction using piecewise linear regression method with breakpoint. Crop production environment consists of inherent sources of heterogeneity and their non-linear behavior. A non-linear Quasi-Newton multi-variate optimization method is utilized, which reasonably minimizes inconsistency and errors in yield prediction. Minimization of least square loss function has been carried out through iterative convergence using pre-defined empirical equation that provided acceptable lower residual values with predicted values very close to observed ones (R^2=0.78) for Corn and Soybean crop (R^2=0.86) for Iowa state. The crop yield prediction model discussed in the present paper will further improve in future with the use of long period dataset. Similar model can be developed for different crops of other locations. ... Read more

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All the essential elements required for corn production are included in this detailed video. Visual symptoms of deficiency are shown for both major elements and micronutrients. The established essential element sufficiency ranges in the corn plant are given, as well as common environmental and cultural factors frequently associated with deficiency. Plant and tissue analysis techniques are also included. ... Read more

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This important and up-to-date printed report provides a guide to ongoing federal research on the production of biofuels from biomass. The Department of Energy (DOE) Multi-Year Program Plan for Biomass and Biorefinery Systems research and development notes that "biomass is the only domestic, sustainable and renewable primary energy resource that can provide liquid transportation fuels and organic chemicals and materials currently produced from fossil sources. Biomass also supports a technology transition to a hydrogen economy through either gasification or the production and reforming of liquid intermediates such as ethanol, methanol, or bio-oil. The three major current and potential markets for biomass and biomass related technologies are: transportation fuels, organic chemicals and materials, and electricity."The U.S. transportation sector is almost entirely dependent on oil (97 percent), using only small amounts of bioenergy, natural gas, and electricity. In fact, two-thirds of the oil used in the U.S. goes to support our transportation fleet. The most direct and near-term alternative to oil for supplying liquid transportation fuels to the nation could be biofuels derived from biomass. Advantages of using biofuels include: fuel can be added to the existing gasoline and diesel market through a blending strategy; and the customer experiences no noticeable change in how the fuel is pumped into the tank. Today, biomass-derived fuels-ethanol and biodiesel-play a small, but increasing role in the U.S. transportation market. Although demand for fuel ethanol more than doubled between 2000 and 2004, fuel ethanol accounted for just over one percent of U.S. transportation energy demand in 2004. For the year, 81 ethanol plants located in 20 states produced a record 3.41 billion gallons, a 21 percent increase from 2003, and 10 percent since 2000. Demand for ethanol is expected to increase, and new plants and expansions are currently under construction, representing an additi ... Read more

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Title: Price dependent on the 2003 crop.(Outlook)(price data on corn, beans, wheat, hogs, and cattle)(Industry Overview)
Author: Bob Utterback
Publication: Farm Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2003
Publisher: Farm Journal Media
Volume: 127Issue: 3Page: 6(1)

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This digital document is an article from Top Producer, published by Farm Journal Media on March 16, 2005. The length of the article is 1824 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: More Big Crops Ahead?(weather forecast for corn farmers)
Author: Linda H. Smith
Publication: Top Producer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 16, 2005
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Title: Are cover crops being used in the US corn belt?(Report)
Author: J.W. Singer
Publication: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 62Issue: 5Page: 353(6)

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This digital document is an article from Pro Farmer, published by Farm Journal Media on October 2, 2004. The length of the article is 724 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Old-crop corn, soybean carryovers set.
Author: Chip Flory
Publication: Pro Farmer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 2, 2004
Publisher: Farm Journal Media
Volume: 32Issue: 40Page: 4(1)

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Now in paperback for the first time, The Story of Corn is Betty Fussell's mesmerizing account of the extraordinary grain that built the New World. In a form as uniquely hybrid as its subject, it blends history and myth, science and art, anecdote and image, personal narrative and epic to tell the story of this amazing crop and the people who for centuries have planted, eaten, worshipped, processed, and profited from it. ... Read more

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Story of Corn
This book fulfilled all my expectations.Excellent, thorough history of corn.Delivery was expeditious and condition of book was excellent.

Kind of A-maize-ing
I must admit, I am actually a beet person (well, root vegetables generally) and bought this book to get ammo to goof on my corn enthusiast friends.But how the worm has turned!Corn and human history are inextricably linked, a bonding of nurture and social evolution.This book lays down the facts.

I guess in retrospect my "hubris" about beets was misguided and wrong.I now think the lesson I learned, whether it pertains to vegetables, politics, music or whatever, is that YOU SHOULD NEVER UNDERESTIMATE DIFFERENT OPINIONS.It's too easy to do, and is an easy way to miss out on fundamental truths.

In that sense, this book transcends it's core audience of corn folk (cornies?) and teaches a much deeper lesson if you are not really interested in corn - that well disciplined research into unfamiliar topics can instruct and delight the receptive reader.

Read it, enjoy and reflect.

Corn breadth
This tome covers corn "ear" to toe.I love the sassy tone and contrarian viewpoints.

what a book
Everything you want to know about corn is found in this book.And I mean everything.We see corn growing in fields everyday but do we actually stop and think about it?Do we pull over to the side of the road and LOOK at it?It's amazing how corn has been around longer than anyone will know.This book covers an overwhelming amount of detail.If you don't find it interesting you're just not a corn person.In fact, the only thing it doesn't answer is why I threw up over a bad cob one time.I don't throw up.

Best book about corn you can find!
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Sometime around 1500 A.D., an African farmer planted a maize seed imported from the New World. That act set in motion the remarkable saga of one of the world's most influential crops--one that would transform the future of Africa and of the Atlantic world. Africa's experience with maize is distinctive but also instructive from a global perspective: experts predict that by 2020 maize will become the world's most cultivated crop.

James McCann moves easily from the village level to the continental scale, from the medieval to the modern, as he explains the science of maize production and explores how the crop has imprinted itself on Africa's agrarian and urban landscapes. Today, maize accounts for more than half the calories people consume in many African countries. During the twentieth century, a tidal wave of maize engulfed the continent, and supplanted Africa's own historical grain crops--sorghum, millet, and rice. In the metamorphosis of maize from an exotic visitor into a quintessentially African crop, in its transformation from vegetable to grain, and from curiosity to staple, lies a revealing story of cultural adaptation. As it unfolds, we see how this sixteenth-century stranger has become indispensable to Africa's fields, storehouses, and diets, and has embedded itself in Africa's political, economic, and social relations.

The recent spread of maize has been alarmingly fast, with implications largely overlooked by the media and policymakers. McCann's compelling history offers insight into the profound influence of a single crop on African culture, health, technological innovation, and the future of the world's food supply.

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Maize and Grace is generally worth reading and is mostly accurate
REVIEW FOR AMAZON OF TWO BOOKS ON CORN PURCHASED THIS PAST
DECEMBER, 2009AS GIFTS FOR MY FATHER, A RESEARCH HYBRID CORN BREEDER, GENETICIST, AND PROFESSOR OF GENETICS AND BOTANY

I ordered two books for my father at Christmas.He is a PhD geneticist specializing in hybrid corn, so the announcement of two new books related to corn crop production was exciting news!

I purchased both books below:
1. Maize and Grace - Africa's Encounter with New World Crop 1500-2000
By James C. McCann

2. Corn Crop Production - Growth, Fertilization and Yield
Edited by Arn T. Danforth

The first book: Maize and Grace is a paperback and reasonably priced at $18.00.At the beginning it goes back to the 3 parent origin of corn which has been proven to be incorrect and out-of-date, is a tri-partite hypothesis (teosinte/tripsacum/primitive) pushed by Harvard Professor Mangelsdorf.

Corn in fact is a descendent of "teosinte" of Mezo America (Southern Mexico and Northern Guatemala) and teosinte is the sole ancestor of corn.This defendable hypothesis came from a graduate student at Cornell named George Beadle.Dr. Beadle went on to earn the Nobel Prize for the recognition that one gene = one enzyme (one gene directs the formation of one enzyme).

Maize and Grace begins with correct information..."Maize comes in five phenotypes...all its forms derive from a single ancestor domesticated in Central Mexico..."- this is all fine, though actually it was geographically Southern Mexico not Central Mexico.However, on page 3 there is an incorrect statement made: "Plant geneticists have focused attention primarily on the Mexican plant teosinte, perhaps a cousin of maize but probably not its progenitor."This is not a correct statement as mentioned above.Teosinte is the sole parent of corn.

This book gets 3 stars, possibly 4 for being generally accurate, well written, and of interest.

The second book: Corn Crop Production, a hard back, is not as scholarly as it could have been and is overpriced at $145.00.It was clearly edited by a non-English speaker.A book claiming to be scholarly which misspells scientific words such as "inbred" (a term crucial to plant breeding and corn) as "inbreed" leads the reader to assume the book will be lacking, and it is.It is somewhat superficial for what it promises to be - for the scientist it is not complete and is not sound enough,for the lay person it is way beyond them.This is a book about corn - yet Chapter 3 is about rice, and Chapter 4 is about millet.There is a degree of dishonesty in this book - a book on corn production with 3 chapters on other grains and those other grains unannounced in the title, is an editorial dishonesty.In terms of what would is needed - editing for logic and English usage would have been a help.It is vastly too expensive a book for what it is.

The book receives one star for looking intriguing - so sorry it was so lacking and unscholarly!



Most sincerely,
Catherine H. Chase Peters (with the help of her father)

Plant it white
Merchants, missionaries, and slave traders probably brought maize, from the New World, to Africa around 1500. Maize has the vegetable vitamins A, C, E. It doesn't have the lower B vitamins of the true grains millet, sorghum, and wheat. Yet it became Africa's most important cereal crop. For it's easy to grow. It needs one plowing, as opposed to 3-4 for true grains. It gives two big harvests a year. Its grains, leaves, roots, stalks, and tassels can be eaten. It's roasted on the cob or made into soup, porridge, gruel, and couscous. Its lighter work load frees farmers for money-making activities; military service; government work projects; and food-for-work projects.

But is it a good choice? It gets lower harvest prices than wheat, teff, and sorghum. It needs nitrogen, sunlight, and water. All three are problems with phosphorous-poor acidic and red porous laterite soils. Acidic soils also have little calcium and magnesium and too much aluminum. Laterite's also low in nutrients. So they're not right soils, right vegetable. African soils only grow maize with fertilizers, herbicides/pesticides, and irrigation. The rest of the world grows maize for chicken and livestock fodder, fuel, paint, penicillin, and plastic. But Africa grows maize to feed Africans. And maize diets are short on proteins and vitamins. So maize-eaters get the diseases kwashiorkor and pellagra.

Maize is behind two modern disasters. One's the crop failures of 1949-52. New World maize got along with two fungal parasites, puccinia sorghi and polysora. Maize and sorghi went to Africa together. It was a rare case of non-native plant and parasite naturalizing beautifully on new soil. Maize and polysora went with American food shipments to Sierra Leone, for re-shipment to America's allies. Polysora calmed down as suddenly as it'd flared up. Was it because local farmers planted from maizes they saw to be polysora-busters?

The other's Ethiopia's malaria epidemic summer 1998. It spread from the expected low-lying lands to the unexpected highlands. Both areas had been irrigated to grow maize. Malaria's historically linked with water. And it may not be the last disaster. Africa grows white maize. But money's not going into white maize research. It's going into hybrid seeds, such as SR-52 for Rhodesia's large commercial farms.

MAIZE AND GRACE reaches a wide readership with its clear organization and writing. The chapters have persuasive examples and illustrations. The conclusion's followed by helpful appendix tables, notes and bibliography. Author James C McCann reaches into history as background for today's problem questions. But he's planted in the present, and facing into the future, with his answers. ... Read more

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Title: Brazil corn and soybean report--Dr. Cordonnier: 'soybean yields stabilized'.
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Pro Farmer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 21, 2009
Publisher: Farm Journal Media
Volume: 37Issue: 8Page: s1(2)

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