Tag: corn
Iowa State may want shy from African lands
It’s hard to see Iowa State University’s key role in a plan by one of its top officials to develop an 800,000-acre farm in...
NCGA announces winners of 2011 National Corn Yield Contest
ST. LOUIS -- Advanced production techniques, informed growing practices and improved seed varieties helped corn growers achieve high yields in the National Corn Growers Association 2011 National Corn Yield Contest.
Food or fuel: What do you believe in?
According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, the world has never produced more food, fed more people and, simultaneously, never had so many hungry people.
Four ways to manage risk volatility on your farm
Corn prices have dropped as much as $2 since August. How are you managing your farm's risk?
Local food movement is helping this local farmer make a living
Miller Livestock Co. is a family operation raising grass fed meat and eggs for families, restaurants.
We’re entering the hope-and-change grain market
For some soggy Ohio farmers, the rain means no corn harvest progress may be made now until the ground freezes.
USDA lowers crop insurance premiums for corn and soybean growers
New crop insurance premiums for 2012 should reduce corn farmers' rates by 7 percent and soybean farmers' by 9 percent.
DuPont, Plant Sensory Systems team to increase corn’s nitrogen use efficiency
DES MOINES, Iowa, and BALTIMORE, Md. -- DuPont and Plant Sensory Systems have entered into a collaboration to evaluate proprietary genes for increasing nitrogen use efficiency in corn.
Crop prices treading water
URBANA - Following wide swings in September and early October, the prices of corn, soybeans and wheat have traded in relatively narrow ranges in the last half of October.
Picking your transgenic corn hybrids
An issue facing corn growers this fall and winter when purchasing corn for next summer centers around the recent announcement of western corn rootworms developing resistance to Cry3Bb1.
