Mr.Czudek says the loss of a maize crop can mean the loss of a family's food supply for a year.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

By the time of Columbus maize had already become the staff of life in the New World.

在哥伦布时期,玉米已成为美洲大陆的主食

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

This is an interesting quote about maize from this particular book called Prehistoric Food Production in North America and if you have trouble I'll read it.

这是一句关于玉米的有趣引用,来自于《史前北美食物生产》,如果你们看不请,就让我读一次吧

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But five major groups in the food industry say they are concerned that the new maize could enter the food supply.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

In certain location things were dominated by certain cereals; rice in Asia, wheat in Europe, sorghum and millet in Africa, and maize in the New World.

不同的地方有不同的主食,比如,亚洲主食米饭,欧洲主食小麦,非洲主食高粱和小米,美洲主食玉米

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Another animal with a good memory -- the elephant -- often raids field crops, especially maize and cassava.

VOA: special.2010.07.27

You can see in the New World with maize being important how America has become a corn dominated society, even though it's still true that we raise wheat, we raise other things in the United States, and we can import different foods, corn has become an incredibly important constituent of the diet in the U.S.

你能发现玉米在美洲大陆的重要性,那美洲是怎样变成主食玉米的社会的呢,尽管我们仍然种植小麦,在美国也种植其他粮食,而且我们能进口各种不同食物,但是玉米还是变成了,美国人食谱中不可代替的部分

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Today eighty percent of the cropland for soybeans, maize and cotton in the United States is transgenic.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

Farmers may keep the remains of maize or other crops on top of the soil.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Corn,or maize,is mostly fed to animals or made into ethanol fuel and high-fructose corn syrup.

VOA: special.2010.12.07

The program is designed for maize and wheat farmers like Josephat Langat.

VOA: special.2010.05.11

The Department of Agriculture has approved the genetically modified maize without restrictions.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

Nearly half of the farmland in the United States is planted with crops that have been genetically engineered, mainly maize,soybeans and cotton.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

I'm a farm wife." Henning and her husband grow maize and soybeans on their 120 hectare farm.

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Maize takes a lot of nutrients out of the soil. One of the virtues of the soybean plant is that it replaces those nutrients.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

U.S.subsidy programs for maize, wheat,and other crops are very similar to the cotton program.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

Corn,which is also called maize, is the other pillar of American agriculture.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Borlaug remained involved with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center in Mexico, even after his research took him to other parts of the globe, where he replicated the success he had had in Mexico, building his reputation as father of the "green revolution" in the 1960's.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13