"In the Depression we had to divert corn…" — Orville Redenbacher

"In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage."

— Orville Redenbacher

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12 Quotes by Orville Redenbacher

Orville Redenbacher has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a…
Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
I opened an office in Terre Haute, established eight of them, and became one of the eight county agents.
I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
We dried continuously day and night. We had no efficient way to do it, so we built this new popcorn…
It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air…
The cobs were delivered to a big pile. We were one of the first to feed corn cobs to cattle.
We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main…

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More Acreage Quotes

This quote is filed under Acreage Quotes, one of 9 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of… — Andrew Solomon
Do you know we have more acreage of forest land in the United States today than we did at the… — Rush Limbaugh
Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity… — David F. Houston
What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs… — Will Rogers
What the new fertilizer technology has accomplished for the farmer is clear: more crop can be produced on less acreage… — Barry Commoner
Confession is the act of inviting God to walk the acreage of our hearts. “There is a rock of greed… — Max Lucado
On a regular basis, I conduct work in the Amazon, establishing trade for medicinal plants, and working with small communities… — Chris Kilham
The most effective step that may be taken to increase the production of these crops is to enlarge the acreage… — David F. Houston

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