Show Broor broomcorn acorn imports despite domestic production broomcorn at the turn of the century was regularly to be found among americas imports most of it coming from italy and austria hungary to this fact is attributed a major catastrophe to american agriculture the introduction of the european corn borer the corn borer gaining its first foothold in northeastern united states is believed to have reached americas shores in 1908 or 1909 in baled european broom broomcorn com the enormous damage it had caused to the corn crop within a few short years caused a revolution in quarantine and fumigation requirements for imported plant material |