You can think whatever you want. I respond to dumb people every day on this forum.
How about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I am sure it has a free version
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Corn Facts
DID YOU KNOW?
- Iowa has approximately 86,900 farms. More than 97 percent of those farms are owned by farm families.
- Iowa ranks number one in producing corn, soybeans, hogs, eggs, ethanol and Dry Distillers Grain Solubles (DDGS) which serve as a premium source of protein for livestock. It also ranks fourth in beef cattle.
- In 2019, Iowa farmers produced around 2.58 billion bushels of corn for grain and harvested 13.1 million acres according to the U.S. Department of Agricultural Statistics Service.
SWEET CORN VS. FIELD CORN
- Only one percent of corn planted in the United States is sweet corn.
- 99 percent of corn grown in Iowa is âField Cornâ. When Iowaâs corn farmers deliver corn from the field, itâs âField Cornâ. Not the delicious sweet corn you might enjoy on the cob or in a can.
- Field corn is the classic big ears of yellow dented corn you see dried and harvested in the fall. Itâs called âdent cornâ because of the distinctive dent that forms on the kernel as the corn dries.
- While a small portion of âField Cornâ is processed for use as corn cereal, corn starch, corn oil and corn syrup for human consumption, it is primarily used for livestock feed, ethanol production and manufactured goods. Itâs considered a grain.
- Sweet corn is what people purchase fresh, frozen or canned for eating. Itâs consumed as a vegetable. Unlike âField Cornâ, which is harvested when the kernels are dry and fully mature, sweet corn is picked when immature.
WHAT IS IT USED FOR?
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Iowa leads the nation in ethanol production, with 57 percent (1.5 billion bushels) of the corn grown in Iowa going to create nearly 27 percent of all American ethanol.
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960 million bushels or 42 percent of Iowa Corn went directly into livestock feed. In livestock feeding, one bushel of corn converts to about 8 pounds of beef, 15.6 pounds of pork, or 21.6 pounds of chicken.
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One bushel of corn produces 17 pounds of DDGS as well as 2.8 gallons of ethanol.
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1.494 billion bushels of Iowa corn in the 2018/19 marketing year went into corn processing used in the wet mill industry for food and industrials usage.
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14 percent or 2.065 billion bushels of Iowa corn was exported out of the state in the 2018/19 marketing year. In an average year, Iowa produces more corn than most countries.
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Corn is in more than 4,000 grocery store items a few examples include: shampoo, toothpaste, chewing gum, marshmallows, crayons and paper.
DEBUNKING FOOD & FUEL MYTHS
- Many products depend on corn as well, from paper goods and cardboard packaging, to all the meat, milk, eggs, poultry and other protein products that come from corn-fed animals.
- Farmers and ranchers that provide our meat, milk and eggs depend on genetically enhanced crops as critical components in production of their animalsâ feed. Livestock in the U.S. have been fed genetically modified crops since they were first introduced in 1996.
- Humans have also been consuming genetically modified (GMO) foods since 1996 also. Hundreds of scientific studies have confirmed the safety of these biotechnology products. In fact in the United States, alone, 9 billion food-producing animals are produced annually, with 95 percent of them consuming feed that contains genetically engineered ingredients meaning consumers come in contact with GMOâs on a daily basis.
- Oil, not corn, has been driving up global food prices. The World Bank conducted research determining crude oil as the number one determinant of global food prices. The cost of energy from oil is integral to so much of the 84 percent of what makes up grocery costs. When the price of oil goes up, so does food prices.
- The great thing about corn is that it provides:
- A renewable, environmentally-friendly fuel source (Ethanol)
- Animal feed for livestock which is important to our food supply
- Exports supplying the world with corn and corn products which boosts our economy
- Food ingredients necessary for preparing many of our favorite meals
- Bio-based, renewable materials for industrial uses such as bioplastics
OTHER FUN CORN FACTS
- Corn can be produced in various colors including blackish, bluish-gray, purple, green, red and white but the most common color grown is yellow
- There is one silk for every kernel that grows in an ear of corn
- The number of kernels per ear can vary from 500 to about 1,200, but a typical ear would have 800 kernels in 16 rows
- Corn is grown in every continent except Antarctica
- One acre of corn is about the size of a football field
- A bushel of corn is 56 pounds, about the weight of a large bag of dog food.
- A single corn bushel can sweeten about 400 cans of soda pop.
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All the gold buyers are out in force since WOW token was mentioned. They donât want the competition.
LUL.
What are my options?
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I think we all would. Thoreau is one of the most pretentious writers of all time.
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My object in writing this book for boys is to furnish them with a narrative of the struggle between York and Lancasterâa struggle which extended over thirty years, deluged England with blood, cost a hundred thousand lives, emasculated the old nobility, and utterly destroyed the house of Plantagenet.
It is generally admitted that no period in Englandâs history is richer in romantic incident than the three decades occupied by the Wars of the Roses; but the contest is frequently described as having been without interest in a political point of view. This idea seems erroneous. That struggle of thirty years was no mere strife of chiefs, ambitious of supremacy and unscrupulous as to means. Indeed, the circumstances of the country were such that no hand would have been lifted against sovereignsâwhether reigning by Parliamentary or hereditary rightâwho showed a due respect to ancient rights and liberties. But the tyranny exercised,[Pg viii] first by the ministers of the sixth Henry, and afterward by those of the fourth Edwardâone influenced by Margaret of Anjou, the other by the Duchess of Bedford, both âforeign womenââwas such as could not be borne by Englishmen without a struggle; and evidence exists that Richard Neville, in arming the people against these kings, did so to prevent the establishment of that despotism which John Hampden and Oliver Cromwell afterward fought to destroy.
With such impressions as to the origin of the war which, during the fifteenth century, agitated England and perplexed Continental rulers, I have, in the following pages, traced the course of events from the plucking of the roses in the Temple Gardens to the destruction of Richard the Third, and the coronation of Henry Tudor, on Bosworth Field. And I venture to hope that a book written to attract English boys of this generation to a remarkable epoch in the mediĂŚval history of their country will be received with favor, and read with interest, by those for whose perusal it is more particularly intended.
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Yawn,
Gold buyers mad.
What I like about blackish corn is you can barely even see it inside your morning deuce.
rendered signal services to the King of France, married Petronella, the kingâs cousin, and had a son who flourished as Count of Anjou. The descendants of Tertullus and Petronella rose rapidly, and exercised much influence on French affairs. At length, in the twelfth century, Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, surnamed Plantagenet, from wearing a sprig of flowering broom instead of a feather, espoused Maude, daughter of Henry Beauclerc, King of England; and Henry Plantagenet, their son, succeeded, on the death of Stephen, to the English throne.
Having married Eleanor, heiress of Aquitaine, and extended his continental empire from the Channel to the Pyrenees, Henry ranked as the most potent of European princes. But, though enabled to render great services to England,[Pg x] he was not an Englishman; and, indeed, it was not till the death of John, at Swinehead, that the English had a king who could be regarded as one of themselves. That king was Henry the Third, born and educated in England, and sympathizing with the traditions of the people over whom he reigned.
Unfortunately for Henry, he was surrounded by Continental kinsmen, whose conduct caused such discontent that clergy, barons, citizens, and people raised the cry of England for the English; and Simon de Montfort, though foreign himself, undertook to head a movement against foreigners. A baronsâ war was the consequence. Henry, defeated at Lewes, became a prisoner in the hands of the oligarchy; and there was some prospect of the crown passing from the house of Plantagenet to that of Montfort.
At this crisis, however, Edward, eldest son of the king, escaped from captivity, destroyed the oligarchy in the battle of Evesham, and entered upon his great and glorious career. Space would fail us to expatiate on the services which, when elevated to the throne as Edward the First, that mighty prince rendered to England. Suffice it to say that he gave peace, prosperity,[Pg xi] and freedom to the people, formed hostile races into one great nation, and rendered his memory immortal by the laws which he instituted.
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Do you realize you are just bumping my thread constantly and doing what I want?
Probably not because you think you are winning 
Keep going, it is what I want you to do⌠EZ win
It really is beautiful isnât it?
Yeah keeping my thread at the top is beautiful.
Thanks for the bump.
To the top!
For a time the aspect of affairs was cheering. At a critical period, however, Bedford expired at Rouen; and ere long England was distracted by a feud between Gloucester and that spurious son of John of Gaunt, known in history as Cardinal Beaufort, and as chief of a house which then enjoyed the dukedom of Somerset. Gloucester charged the cardinal with contempt for the laws of the realm; and the cardinal avenged himself by accusing Gloucesterâs duchess of endeavoring to destroy the king by witchcraft, and banishing her to the Isle of Man. It soon appeared that the rivalry between Duke Humphrey and his illegitimate kinsman would involve the sovereign and people of England in serious disasters.
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Gimme ulduar
I canât believe some kid is so mad they will spend their time posting nonsense in my thread.
You are just making my dayâŚ
Knowing I got you so triggered.
Gloucester was the first to take the business in hand. Guided at once by motives of policy and patriotism, he proposed to unite his nephew to a daughter of the Count of Armagnac; and he trusted, by an alliance, to allure that powerful French noble to the English interest. The king did not object to the Armagnac match. Before striking a bargain, however, he felt a natural desire to know something of the appearance of his future spouse; and with this view he employed a painter to furnish portraits of the countâs three daughters. Before the portraits could be executed circumstances put an end to the negotiations. In fact, the dauphin, as the English still called the seventh Charles of France, having no reason to regard the proposed marriage with favor, placed himself at the head of an army, seized upon the count and his daughters, and carried them off as prisoners of state.
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