seed-corn

Monsanto said it would pay for medical and funeral expenses, and has temporarily stopped detasseling in its seed-corn fields in the surrounding region.

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Demeter is this year's ripe crop and Persephone, the seed-corn taken from the parent.

Donna Henes: Harvesting Mother Earth's Gifts of Life Donna Henes 2010

Demeter is this year's ripe crop and Persephone, the seed-corn taken from the parent.

Donna Henes: Harvesting Mother Earth's Gifts of Life Donna Henes 2010

Demeter is this year's ripe crop and Persephone, the seed-corn taken from the parent.

Donna Henes: Harvesting Mother Earth's Gifts of Life Donna Henes 2010

So at their request we will be providing seed-corn for crops in time for the planting season which normally starts end of October.

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As a result, Pioneer's share of U.S. seed-corn sales has dropped to about 30% from 38% in 2000.

Monsanto Posts 42% Jump in Net 2008

By the time the war was over, the wealth of nations had drained away: it had all been spent on armaments, which had been used to destroy the seed-corn of the future.

Clive Ponting: 1940 -- myth and reality Michael Allen 2005

In the early morning he rode over to the first sowing of the rye, and to the oats, which were being carried to the stacks, and returning home at the time his wife and sister-in-law were getting up, he drank coffee with them and walked to the farm, where a new thrashing machine was to be set working to get ready the seed-corn.

Anna Karenina 2003

'We always have dealt with Ateris, for iron, seed-corn, seasoned timbers, leather.'

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

A glance around the loft where the child's bed stood yielded no sign of spare bedding -- the family was a poor one -- but after a moment he collected several sacks of peas and seed-corn from their lumpish white ranks along the far wall and stacked them up behind the little boy's shoulders, wadding the pillow in over them.

The Silicon Mage Hambly, Barbara 1988