CORN
Corn burning made easy
We heat our house with corn; which means that our heating bill has been pretty expensive this year. Burning corn kernels for heat was really great a few years back when corn was cheap, today it just...
Posted on 2/10/11 at 11:29 PM
Crop forecast: soybeans up, corn down
Worthington, Minn. The latest crop forecast projects Minnesota farmers will see a bigger soybean yield, but the outlook for corn has dimmed a bit. The U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts Minnes...
Posted on 9/13/10 at 9:55 AM
Corn demand is strong
By Sue Martin , January 30, 2012
Potential exports drive wheat higher
By Ray Grabanski , January 30, 2012
Minot area’s 2012 crop outlook mostly hopeful
MINOT, N.D. – In his 40 years of farming, Jim McCullough has seen a lot. Last year, the Regan, N.D,, producer battled a wet spring, hail and crop disease that fungicide applications couldn’t prevent. “It wasn’t an easy year,” he said. Now, with spring planting inching closer, McCullough said he’s “kind of optimistic” about the 2012 crop. “Inputs are getting up there a little bit, but I think we can have a good year.”By Jonathan Knutson , January 25, 2012
100 years of history
By Mikkel Pates , January 23, 2012
Export market shows potential life
By Ray Grabanski , January 23, 2012
Farmers, farm groups told they need more unity
FARGO, N.D. — Supporters of federal crop insurance need to show greater unity, particularly as work on the 2012 farm bill intensifies, Jeff Harrison and Bob Haney say.By Jonathan Knutson , January 23, 2012
Deaths prompt big fines
In the December online supplement to Safety+Health Magazine, the publication cites Occupational Safety and Health Administration figures on recent grain elevator violation penalties.By Mikkel Pates , January 23, 2012
Sen. Conrad proposes to simplify crop insurance
FARGO, N.D. — Federal crop insurance is essential to U.S. agriculture, but the insurance can be made simpler and easier to implement to use, Sen. Kent Conrad, D.N.D., said Monday.By Jonathan Knutson , January 16, 2012
USDA deflates bulls
By Ray Grabanski , January 16, 2012
Important choices
By Jonathan Knutson , January 16, 2012
Regional News
Corn prices plunge on higher supply forecastCorn prices plunged Jan. 12 after the government said corn supplies were higher than traders expected.
By Agweek staff and wire reports , January 16, 2012
Corn prices plunge on higher supply forecast
The price of corn plunged Thursday after the government said corn supplies were higher than traders expected. Investors had bid the price up, expecting tighter supplies because of weather damage to crops.By Sandy Shore , January 12, 2012
No blender’s credit may lead to higher E85 prices
Consumers may see the cost of E85 rise at the pump, but the end of the federal blender’s credit for ethanol is otherwise not likely to send any major ripples through Minnesota’s agriculture economy.By Tom Cherveny , January 05, 2012
Oregon man pleads guilty to fraud after selling corn labeled organic
The U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday that Harold Chase used several aliases to buy conventionally grown corn, then sold it as organic to Grain Millers Inc. of Eden Prairie, Minn.By Associated Press , December 07, 2011
USDA: Durum, spring wheat output even lower
Fallout from flooding cuts grain productionEarlier estimates had pegged the crop at its lowest levels since Eisenhower was president. The new numbers are even lower.
By Stephen J. Lee , November 09, 2011
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