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seed corn

NOUN
  1. good quality seeds (as kernels of corn) that are reserved for planting

How To Use seed corn In A Sentence

  • Investment is the seed corn of economic progress.
  • This year flea beetles, white grubs, seed corn maggots and wireworms generated a lot of discussion.
  • We want to train young people as the seed corn of future management.
  • These young people are the seed corn management of the future.
  • The scheme offers seed corn finance with loans at only 4% interest.
  • It's eating our seed corn," said Sen. Bill Nelson D-Fla., referencing the colloquialism that when times are tough, and one is hungry, you're supposed to plant seeds for crop, not eat them. White House To Rick Scott: We'll Spend Florida's High-Speed Rail Money Elsewhere
  • He expects his operation's bulk seed treatment business to expand to include inoculants and insecticide treatments on bulk seed corn.
  • Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
  • Although the risk of injury from seedling insects such as wireworms and seed corn maggots is reduced with a later planting, there is no post-emergence treatment for these insects.
  • Nebraska farmers are field testing a relay intercropping system that rotates seed corn, wheat and soybean over two years to provide for soil nitrogen use.
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