usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Friendly View Email Article business Milk prices bowl over consumers Cereal-killing jump in cost linked to widespread demand for corn By Will Shanley and Steve Raabe Denver Post Staff Writers Article Last Updated:04/01/2007 10:13:58 PM MDT Nate Rinfret has stopped eating cereal because he thinks the price of milk is too high. usDiggRedditYahooMyWebGoogle What's this? Print Friendly View Email Article business Milk prices bowl over consumers...

Under a new Louisiana law, 2 percent of gasoline sold in the state will have to be agriculture-based when ethanol production in the state reaches 50 million gallons annually, biodiesel production reaches 10 million gallons annually or production of another alternative fuel reaches 20 million gallons a year. Sweet sorghum, a cane-like plant with a high sugar content grown primarily for forage, silage and sugar production, could become the next big alternative fuel crop and boon for...

But he also wrote that more acreage planted in corn could hurt long-term valuations: More corn planted will mean greater supply, which will mean lower future prices. Analysts said the market had been expecting the big jump in corn plantings, as demand from the ethanol industry has stoked prices. He suggested investors use any bullish response to the corn figures to take profits in DuPont co., a seed producer. Merrill Lynch analyst Don Carson wrote in a research report that the higher corn...

Agriculture officials said the main reason is because the national demand for corn is so high right now; thanks, in part, to the growing popularity of ethanol. Agriculture officials said the popularity of ethanol is increasing the demand for corn nationwide. While tobacco is still king, Stancil also plans to grow more corn this year than ever before. The price is up is the main reason there's going to be more corn planted and I think that's mainly due to ethanol. Many North Carolina...

Not to be confused with the grocery store, New Season is one of four plants in the world that produces sweet corn, squash powder and other veggie products for instant soups. Sweet corn, unlike regular corn, is more yellow in color and contains a higher sugar content. New Season Foods started processing vegetables and fruit in 1950, and for the past 10 years the company has focused on producing custom ingredients with sweet corn powder as its leading product. It employs up to 80 people...

Likewise, the market price of sweet corn will decline because of the EU anti-dumping duty. Purchase orders from EU importers who must front money as a guarantee on imports of the product are in decline following the imposition of the anti-dumping duty. The report said the Thai government and exporters should speed negotiations with the EU and also seek new markets for both frozen and canned sweet corn. The report said Thai canned sweet corn exports to the EU would be in trouble for at...