Sentences with phrase «hybrid seed corn»

The importance of observability is documented in an early and influential diffusion study that focused on adoption of hybrid seed corn in two communities in Iowa.

We are indebted to Professor Bill Henderson of Indiana Maurer Law School (@wihender) for introducing the legal profession to the Rogers Diffusion Curve, which grew, so to speak, out of research on how, why, and how rapidly the use of hybrid seed corn — invented in Iowa — spread among farmers.

Not exact matches

Last century, it was the mountains of corn made possible by hybrid seeds, agro-chemicals and cheap oil.

The approach enabled his team to compare, in replicated field trials across various environments, CST among every «super sweet» processing sweet corn hybrid provided by the seed industry, which included 26 hybrids from 8 companies.

Pioneer donated high - yielding hybrid corn seed, supplies, and supervision; schools provided land; and each community contributed labor to raise a corn crop.

At the time the main concern for plant breeders was pollen movement between different strains of crops — if a variety of sweet corn was contaminated by pollen from a popcorn variety, then the resulting hybrid offspring would produce seeds that were unusable for market purposes or for selecting new varieties.

For example, I buy only hybrid sweet corn seed, usually a variety called Vision ($ 26.90 / lb).

As an example, most people have driven their car down the highway and noticed signs in a cornfield that indicate the product in this field was grown with «Hybrid» corn seed.

The signs can indicate the product in this field was grown with «Hybrid» corn seed.

Burpee is offering seed for its On Deck hybrid corn.