Sweet corn
During the last century sweet corn has been carefully bred for taste, size and uniformity. Modern super-sweet varieties, which are planted throughout the Columbia Basin as a rotation crop, can be as much as 40 percent sugar.
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Kevin Moe, a Syngenta Seed rep, holds an ear of sweet corn on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at one of the company's test sites near Pasco, Wash.
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Workers harvest corn Aug 29, 2017, near Moses Lake, Wash.
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Shyly Navarro exits her corn harvester as she waits for a truck to haul her most recent load to a processing plant on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Kevin Moe, a Syngenta Seed rep, tests varieties of sweet corn on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at one of the company's test sites near Pasco, Wash.
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A corn field is seen on Aug 29, 2017 near Moses Lake, Wash.
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Workers harvest corn Aug 29, 2017, near Moses Lake, Wash.
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Shyly Navarro drives a corn harvester on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Russ Kehl a Moses Lake farmer, checks a ledger of irrigation logs on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, from his truck in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Shyly Navarro drives a corn harvester on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Kevin Moe, a Syngenta Seed rep, holds an ear of sweet corn on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at one of the company's test sites near Pasco, Wash.
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Russ Kehl, a Moses Lake farmer, walks through one of his fields on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Kevin Moe, a Syngenta Seed rep, tests varieties of sweet corn on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2017, at one of the company's test sites near Pasco, Wash.
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Shyly Navarro's corn harvester throws ears of corn into the air as they are harvested on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Corn is harvested on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Marcelino Medina unloads a truck of corn at National Frozen Foods’ Moses Lake Facility on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Corn is harvested on Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in Moses Lake, Wash.
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Workers harvest corn Aug 29, 2017 near Moses Lake, Wash.
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