seed corn
seed grain

"In a few years, I would have been eating my seed corn."

"We have enough seed corn, but it would draw down our stocks."

For no matter how hungry the people may become the seed corn must not be eaten.

"Where I come from in farming country, we call that eating our seed corn."

They have to plant the crops rather than eat the seed corn.

Not a big gain, and it's a bit like eating your seed corn.

By the mid-1960s nearly all seed corn was produced with this gene.

Investment - the seed corn for future growth - has fallen at an annual rate of 4.8 percent since 1980.

Americans have become like starving farmers who eat their seed corn.

There was little work to be done since the seed corn had not been planted.