However, the higher corn prices may be negative for some of the livestock producers that will have to bid for corn against ethanol plants and foreign exports. Generally, the growth of the ethanol industry likely will reduce the amount of corn available for exports or livestock feed. In a short crop year, the potential is for very strong corn prices as ethanol plants and other corn-dependent industries bid for limited stocks. The question for the industry is how many more acres will switch...

In fact, no commercial feed corn operation exists in the state, and the only corn silage farm has turned to other forms of farming. They are lobbying lawmakers on behalf of Hawaii s seed corn industry, one of the largest of the state s nonplantation crops. But corn grows well enough in Hawaii to form a vital link in the worldwide business of seed corn. For a decade, prices had generally not been much more than $2 a bushel, and grain farmers were singing the blues. About 4,000 acres in...

Corn farmers are pushing for more ethanol production as the industry creates an enormous new market for their crop, giving corn prices the kind of lift they have not seen in years. The Mexican government this week put a cap on tortilla prices after prices shot up between 20 and 30 percent over uncertainty that there would be enough U. Markets Ethanol boom, rising corn prices divide farm lobbyists. Meat, dairy, and other food producers are pushing back against the ethanol boom as higher...

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...