field corn
noun
: corn (such as dent corn or flint corn) with starchy kernels that are used especially as livestock feed or processed into food products (such as cornmeal, corn oil, and corn syrup) or ethanol
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Traditional street corn is more of a field corn.
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Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 May 2021
Other varieties include dent or field corn, flour corn, and today’s subject: popcorn.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
When just picked, sweet corn has at least twice the sugar content of field corn.
—Bee Wilson, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
One of the studies analyzed field corn, lettuce and tomatoes grown in soil fertilized with MWRD sludge.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
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Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 May 2021
Other varieties include dent or field corn, flour corn, and today’s subject: popcorn.
—Susan Brownstein, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2022
When just picked, sweet corn has at least twice the sugar content of field corn.
—Bee Wilson, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
One of the studies analyzed field corn, lettuce and tomatoes grown in soil fertilized with MWRD sludge.
—Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 31 July 2022
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