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The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Corn: From Ubiquitous Crop to Controversial Commodity

The Poor Prole’s Almanac

Bleav + The Poor Prole’s Alamanac

Home Garden, Home, Science, Plants, Lifestyle, Outdoors, How To, Home & Garden, Nature, Leisure, Education

4.9781 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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0:00.0

Although some corn is grown in each state, two-thirds of the corn of the United States is grown in an area called the Corn Belt.

0:10.0

Why do we have a corn belt here?

0:15.0

Thousands of years. Well, call me Irish because we've got some corned beef going on around here.

0:36.0

We've done this 100 times. And is that really how you're going to start this?

0:40.4

You know, we're not cornucating around here.

0:42.4

That's clue number one.

0:43.7

I'll quote the book of Cobb.

0:45.5

Then Cobb answered the corn and said, I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of

0:52.2

yours can be thwarted."

0:54.2

And what I'm saying here is this will make you stronger, Elliot?

0:58.8

Probably.

1:00.2

Like all corn consumption, it makes us stronger, American-eer Americans.

1:04.8

Did you just call me corn, Fred?

1:06.6

Because I don't think I am.

1:07.7

And how long is this episode?

1:09.8

How long does it take a combine to harvest an

1:11.9

acre of corn? Is that a rhetorical question? It's like 20 minutes, give or take. So in like

1:17.5

four acres, we'll be done. This is our new measuring system. Sorry, Shaq. All right, I have to draw the line

1:23.3

here. If you haven't guessed what this episode is about by now, you're about to find out and probably

1:28.6

be slightly disappointed. Agreed. So we have a title to this episode, so hopefully people know what

1:34.8

it's about. But we are going to be definitely talking about drawing the line, as the kids say,

1:39.4

when they're talking about, you know, inbreeding corn for purebred strains of corn.

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