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Sep. 16, 2008
Is the State Eating Its Seed Corn?
By JOHN F. SHIREY When growing up in the Midwest in a farming community, I frequently heard the expression, "Don't eat your seed corn."
When growing up in the Midwest in a farming community, I frequently heard the expression, "Don't eat your seed corn." This old expression came from a time when farmers knew they had to carefully protect their seed corn at the end of a season so they would have something to plant in the spring. If they used all their corn now, there would be no harvest the following fall. Those are good words to live by, but yet, the state of ...
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