Had America's horses been a little less girth, the movement toward narrower-row corn might not have seen the uphill battle it has. "The 44-inch paradigm was there forever, and it's because 44 inches was the width of the Belgian horse," says Marion Calmer, CEO Calmer Corn Heads. "It came down to 40 inches around the Great Depression, but was still stuck at 40 inches throughout the 1960s."
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