Their mission was to grow a single acre of corn and then track the yield's final destination, whether as the source of high-fructose corn syrup or cattle feed. It will, however, get you thinking about all that corn, and why such a low-nutrition, high-subsidy crop has become so ubiquitous in the American diet. As they learn about government subsidies and ammonia fertilizer and how many minutes it takes to plant an acre's worth of seed (18 minutes for 31,000 seeds, if you have the right...

Johannesburg - Finance ministers and central banks chiefs from the G20 grouping of largest economies meeting near Cape Town expressed "deep concern" over the effect of climate change on global food prices and forecast a modest slowdown in global economic growth. News Alerts by Email click here ) Johannesburg - Finance ministers and central banks chiefs from the G20 grouping of largest economies meeting near Cape Town expressed "deep concern" over the effect of climate change on global food...

They lost much of this year's beans to drought, although some farmers got just enough rain at critical times to bring in their corn crops. Grain specialist Chad Lee says the daylong session will cover seed, seed treatments, hybrids, fertilizer and grain-storage options. The drought coupled with spiraling petroleum costs are pummeling profits for Kentucky farmers. He says farmers can get deep discounts on some production supplies if they buy them by the end of the year. Statewide, soybean...

If Hann is concerned about local control, I invite him to join me in working to stop anti-tax extremists who live in other states from misleading Minnesota voters -- hired hands like Paul Dorr, who lied to voters in the Robbinsdale district to promote his own anti-tax agenda. If Hann is concerned about local control, I invite him to join me in working to stop anti-tax extremists who live in other states from misleading Minnesota voters -- hired hands like Paul Dorr, who lied to voters in...

Despite record wheat prices, consumers will see minimal effects on food products containing wheat since much of it is already in processed form, Welch said. Though planted acres of wheat have increased across the Southeast, Texas and Oklahoma, weather will be a big factor on yields this spring. Even though quality-planting seed was expensive and hard to find this fall, planting cost per acre is lower and wheat requires less fuel and fertilizer than traditional row crops. If the crop is...

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