The Start Of Another Profound Topical - Corn

Angola participated in the Milano International Expo of 2015, Food and Culture. The country issued a special stamp for the occasion. Corn is an important crop in Angola. Photo of their pavilion. Note logo.

Hello Linus, Quite right; do you know of any stamp showing corn flakes? K.

Not sure about corn flakes on a stamp Kris, how about Great Britain Food and Farming Year 1989, the 35p stamp, is that a bowl of corn flakes on it?

This cover below is all about corn flakes...

Linus

Mexico
Crops IV
September 18, 1982
Set of two, one stamp depicts maize and maize plant.

Never too early to look forward to delicious corn in the summer! 'personalized' stamp, Austria.

Afghanistan
Freedom from Hunger Campaign
March 27, 1963
Set of four, one stamp depicts Corn (Zea mays).

Kris R - I like that Austria stamp showing corn-on-the-cob on the grill. In Iowa, we call it "sweet corn." Here tonight, we are in a brutally cold polar vortex, and that stamp makes me wish I had a fresh ear of Iowa sweet corn for supper. Here is another block from the USA showing the Old Capitol building adorned with cornstalks around it. The building was restored after a dome fire, and is on the campus of the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, USA.

Linus

USA Scott #838
Year 1938

At the risk of sounding corny I will contribute a couple
of corn stamps.

Issued in honour of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization

United Nations 1954

Scott 23-24

Sorry to tell you, but that is wheat, not corn.

Oh well, in Europe corn means wheat and maize means American corn on the cob.

That sounded so odd to me that I had to look that up, and you are correct!

The word corn, Wiktionary tells us, can mean:

1. (Britain) The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
2. (US, Canada, Australia) Maize, a grain crop of the species Zea mays.
3. A grain or seed, especially of a cereal crop.
4. A small, hard particle.

Thanks for adding to this topic, I learned something new.

Linus

Paraguay
MERCOSUR - Alternative Energies
December 27, 2012
Set of six, the stamp entitled Biodiesel depicts a corn plant.

Maldives
World Food Day
December 30, 1981
Set of five, one stamp depicts maize and maize field.

Montserrat
Vegetables
June 24, 2014
Set of six, one stamp depicts corn.

Vatican
Plants from America
September 15, 1992
Set of six, one stamp shows corn.

Brazil

1987

100 years of Agronomic Intsitute of Campinas