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Forum Local News Milestones Obituaries Sports e-Edition .Classifieds Jobs Autos Printing Special Sections Buy a paper. Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs prices that later wilted. After hovering around $2 a bushel for a decade, corn prices have nearly doubled in the last...

The bond process is designed whereby the bond purchasers will receive compensation even if the bonds should fall into default, said Fennessy. Johnson and Carter said the plant will use cotton seeds, canola and soybeans to make biodiesel, and those crops are plentiful in this part of the state. Mike Fennessy, PDA attorney, said ultimately many investors will probably end up purchasing bonds which will be part of the $20 million bond issue. The plant will be built in a large plat of land...

Robertson County, like other counties in Tennessee, is experiencing a decline in the production of tobacco, a crop that once fueled the economies of farming communities across the state. The state wants to more than double agricultural enhancement grants, to $11 million this year, in part to help farmers get out of tobacco and into more profitable agricultural ventures. According to a recently released USDA report, 750 fewer acres of tobacco will be planted in the Volunteer State this year...

Just five crops (corn, cotton, rice, soybeans, and wheat) receive 93 percent of payments for commodities, which have averaged about $20 billion a year. This artificial "gigantification," though, has encouraged dependency, pushed out small farmers, and raised land prices such that new farmers are finding it hard to get started. The subsidies also distort global agricultural markets, putting the US at odds with its trading partners and hurting poor farmers abroad. Originally, federal...

Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in China shot corn prices to record highs prices that later wilted. Still, some experts warn that the price has nowhere to go but down if the market is flooded, and not everyone has forgotten how a massive grain deal with the Soviet Union in the early 1970s and the 1996 drought in...