The Start Of Another Profound Topical - Corn

A big ear of ripe corn featured on the El Salvadorean stamp of 1983. In that part of the world growing corn goes back many thousands of years.

Ears of corn shown on these Belgium Agriculture stamps from 1948.

Linus

Hi Linus, The "corn" pictured on the Belgian stamps might also be chicoree, a speciality of Belgium. It is the large bud of the chicoree plant, usually grown in almost dark greenhouses in the winter. You can fix it as a fresh, crisp lettuce or bake it in whatever sauce you like. The relative size as compared to the grapes as well as the lack of any silk also makes this probable. The wild form of the plant is the blue chicory of the roadside. You surely know them in your part of the world.

Oops, my bad. Looked like corn, but thanks for teaching me about chicoree, Kris. Never heard of it, but yes, I have seen the blue flowers growing wild along the roads here where I live.

Linus

South Africa illustrated a stamp in 1966 with two corn stalks. Corn is an important crop in South Africa if the area has enough rainfall.

Hi Linus, Too bad I can't send you any - they are in season right now and there are even red ones. K.

The essentials of life: food and clean water are highlighted on the background of thriving rural agriculture and fishing on this stamp for the 50th anniversary of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.

Donald and his friends are leaning back and enjoying a whole bowl of corn chips (which looks like popcorn) in the shade of a big tree.

Bread made of Milho (corn) and Manioc flour looks delicious, and a cob of corn behind a plate of all sorts of traditional specialities as well. Joint issue Mexico and Brazil 2012.

USA Scott #4291 showing the flag of Iowa and stalks of corn.

Linus

The Trans Mississippi set of stamps was introduced on page 2; each stamp is decorated with corn and wheat in the frame of historical paintings. This one shows the missionary and explorer Father Marquette on the northern Mississippi. The stamps (1898) celebrated the Trans Mississippi International Exposition which took place in Omaha that year.

Another stamp in the Trans Mississippi set of 1898. John C. Fremont (1813-1890) up on a peak in the Rockies - I wonder what he and his team would say if they knew that one can take a highway up to, for example, Pike's Peak.

Madeira (Portugal)
600 Years of the Discovery of Porto Santo
June 22, 2018
A set of four stamps and one minisheet; one stamp depicts corn.

A cob of corn and the logo of CEPT on the background of a map celebrate the first emission of EUROPA stamps in 1956. The green patch represents the Ivory Coast with its capital.

Bhutan issued a block of four stamps honoring the UN Small Grants Program in many countries, here South Africa. 2018

Cobs of corn are draped on drying racks in Aruba, and when entirely dry the kernals are beaten or rubbed off. In the background one sees how that is done by putting the cobs in a bag and then beating at it. 1998