What's in your silo?

[Rick Kennerly]

Now that you mention it, I guess so.  Soy is soybean.  We also had milo, a
kind of sorghum that was shorter with darker heads.

Rick

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:Must be sorghum, right?  And soy would be shipped out as soybeans,
:I assume.
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:At 11:44 AM 5/9/02 -0400, you wrote:
:>Is "sorgram" a regionalism?
:>
:>Ben
:>
:>On Wed, 8 May 2002, Rick Kennerly wrote:
:>
:> > During my childhood in the 50s, we had grain silos and hay
:barns in North
:> > Texas.  What soy or sorgram that got shipped out in those days
:would have
:
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