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...

With the rise of ethanol and the recent jump in corn prices, more farmers are dialing the metronome to a new tempo: corn, corn, corn, corn. Rather than rotating corn and soybeans, he is growing corn in succession on some fields to take advantage of higher corn prices. His family farm has been doing this for years, but now they are upping their acreage from 75 percent corn to about 90 percent. Farmers like Keith Alverson say if it's done right, "corn on corn" can be economically and...

The Iowa farmer clenching a pitchfork would have sold his crops to grain elevators for food -- not fuel. Any study of crops didn't go much past 4-H projects at county fairs or the famed outdoor laboratories of moonshiners in the hills of Tennessee -- with one eye on the lookout for "revenuers. However, the seeds of change were there -- those moonshiners discovered they could fuel their trucks with the alcohol they made. Solar power -- made possible with the polycrystalline silicon that...

Mark Stephenson, a Cornell University senior extension associate with dairy markets and policy, reports that some farmers looking to cut costs as corn and soybeans become harder to obtain are supplementing their feed with brewers or distiller's grain, a high-energy byproduct of corn. This raise in farm milk prices can be linked with the upsurge in corn production and is especially helpful as farmers cope with the flip side of the ethanol program ever-increasing feed costs. And as more land...

The returns on both farmland and crops have been good, and producers are able to lock in high corn prices. While private equity "can't trade in farmland like they do in stocks and bonds," says Hertz, "they're now getting into it because of ethanol and (land) prices going up. In the last year, the soaring price of farmland, fueled by demand for corn and ethanol _ which is created from corn _ and increased popularity of ranch land has attracted a small but budding group of private equity...

Two hundred pounds of crayfish were finished off in three hours. Although she didn't have final attendance numbers for Sunday's event, Holt took the butter and crayfish consumption as a sign that the size of this year's fiesta surpassed last year's attendance of 5,000. But the most important item sweet corn remained plentiful, albeit in dwindling amounts. Food dwindles quickly at Sweet Corn Fiesta. Sixty pounds of butter was ordered for today's Seventh Annual South Florida Sweet Corn...

With the approaching 2007 farm bill debate and increased focus on the higher corn demand and prices brought on by expanding ethanol production, it would be helpful to review some facts on farm policy and prices as we move forward. Not only will the Kool-Aid peddlers pass out the Dixie Cups again, they have added a new wrinkle to their solution: the elimination of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) as a measure to increase corn acres to keep prices low in order to expand exports and...

Ethanol needs this kind of a backup because, while corn-based ethanol can already compete with gasoline in the market, research must yet be done on cellulosic ethanol, which can be derived from agricultural wastes, sugar cane residue, timbering slash, and plants like switchgrass. Ethanol needs this kind of a backup because, while corn-based ethanol can already compete with gasoline in the market, research must yet be done on cellulosic ethanol, which can be derived from agricultural...

He said first prize for winning the sweet corn eating competition is a cool $1,500. Now, you can submit birth, wedding and engagement announcements online too! Submit your comments on the article in the space below: The addition of the flashing numbers above = Always believing it would be great to give his winnings to a charity, Smith has vowed he will give his prize winnings to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Suburban Newspapers2007 Submit your comment now.