"corn" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It meant by the one law to promote the general interest of the country, or to render corn cheap, without, perhaps, its being well understood how this was to be done.
- However the adoption of free trade in mid-19th century brought cheap American corn which undersold local farmers.
- The reason its titans want to keep corn cheap and plentiful, Pollan explains, is that they value it, above all, as a remarkably inexpensive industrial raw material.
- That cheap corn is then bought by large farms, which feed it to animals, leading to profitable business for meat packers.
- The toll on small farmers is particularly bitter because cheaper corn has not translated into cheaper food for Mexicans.
- That has led to cheap American corn flooding the Mexican market and pushing the poorest Mexican farmers out of business, according to the report.
- But the town workers, they of course arc in harness with the factory masters and proprietors of industry, and they want cheap corn.
- He recalled that in those days he drove his old and ramshackle Fiat all over the countryside looking for cheap corn and the lowest slaughterhouse prices.
- And indeed, it had to contend with an assembly that demanded handouts of cheap corn and land and wanted a say in the administration of the empire.
- Without cheap corn, the modern urbanization of livestock would probably never have occurred.
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