Cryer is one of many corn farmers in the country benefiting from high corn prices boosted by the demand for corn to produce ethanol, an alternative energy source. He said the corn can be eaten, but what we typically choose is a sweet corn. Meeting demand on all sides The demand for corn for ethanol production has spurred higher prices for feed for livestock, something Lucas said he would like to reduce through a push for cellulosic ethanol. At the Cryer farm, 3,000 acres of corn are...

Participants learned more about Missouri's animal agriculture and the important connection that exists between the beef cattle and row crop industries. Additional programs will be held around the state in the coming months to spread knowledge about Missouri agriculture and the impact animal agriculture and crops like soybeans have on rural economies. A quick review of the facts makes it easy to see why animal agriculture is so important to the state's economy. Soybean farmers contribute...

For that, thank Japanese food technologists, who in the 1970s perfected a reliable way of turning corn starch into syrup sweet enough to become a sugar substitute. And not just any old sugar, but the high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) that has replaced cane and beet sugar in processed foods and soft drinks over the past 25 years. HARDLY a day goes by without some further revelation about the disturbing state of childhood obesityand the diseases of old age that teenagers are beginning to...

summons for caramel corn, the "sparkling water" we smuggled into the suite or the pre-dawn call to Spain on the castle phone. The one-night experience is among the top prizes in a new "Year of a Million Dreams" promotion, typically awarded to a park guest chosen at random by computer and tracked down by a Disney "Dream Squad" most days of the year. Other prizes: Shopping sprees, Disney cruises, vacation packages and acting as parade grand marshal at Disney parks around the world. We were...

Where are the students? May 20, 2007 04:30 AM Leslie Scrivener Staff Reporter At a time when the colour of the decade is green and Canadians say concern about the environment is their top priority, universities that train the future stewards of the land and forests face a problem: steeply declining enrolments. They've grown tomato, radishes and beans in hypobaric chambers with about one-quarter the oxygen and one-tenth the air pressure of Earth's atmosphere. The associate dean, Peter...

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