The plastic intensifies the sunlight, increasing the soil temperature by as much as fifteen degrees, which is why the first crop of Grimes sweet corn was ready by June 26th this year. Channel 13's Mark Tauscheck visited a stand to find out who's pushing the corn on our city streets. The Christiansen family planted their first sweet corn in the early 90s. So many plantings is unusual, not many farmers line their cornrows with plastic either. With the stream of locals with cash in hand, he...

It added that grain prices were expected to stay higher than in the past 10 years, which would also have an indirect effect on prices for livestock products due to higher feed stocks. PARIS The rapid growth of the world s biofuel industry is likely to keep farm commodity prices at high levels in the next decade as it will boost demand for grains, oilseeds and sugar, a major study said on Wednesday. Made of grain, oilseeds and sugar, the "green" fuels are expected to lower dependence on...

Department of Agriculture last month forecast a huge increase in corn acreage this year, leading to speculation that the 2007 corn crop could reach as much as 13 billion bushels. North Platte Telegraph - Corn yield on the rise? Monsanto, the agriculture biotechnology corporation and the leading producer of the herbicide glyphosate known as Round Up, will spend $800 million on biotechnology and breeding in 2008, in an effort to increase corn yields through drought-resistant and...

There is no need to rotate crops and the plant is insect resistant and it won't inflate the cost of corn. The most effective obstacle to passage during the 1990s spectacle was testimony from the well-financed police lobby, in full uniformed regalia. Their recorded testimony cited public safety, when in retrospect, it appears job security was really on their minds. The seed of the hemp plant is 85 percent oil. It is an industry waiting to be rediscovered regardless of obvious fear tactics....

That feed will be much more expensive than last year with grain prices having risen by at least 30 per tonne since September 2006. Just short of 22p per litre appears to the going rate at the moment from the leading buyers, but it costs most farmers at least 18p to produce that single litre. Scottish dairy farmers are in the main hugely efficient; they have had to be to stay in business. DAN BUGLASS () THINGS are at last beginning to look a shade brighter for dairy farmers and, over the...

That combined with "very high energy prices and a minefield everywhere you look in the geopolitical arena, it's certainly no surprise the metals are moving higher. Elsewhere, industrial metals prices mostly advanced, while agriculture futures fell. In the energy market, oil traders appeared to take some profits from Friday's rise of $1 a barrel, but reports of violence in Nigeria's oil-producing region underpinned prices. The metal often moves opposite from the dollar on the assumption...

This year, she is considering selling some of the produce, either through a farmers market or by setting up a stand beside the garden along West Virginia 47. PARKERSBURG While many commercial products are available for today s gardeners and farmers to increase crop yield, some growers follow a different route and use organic farming methods. Eric Barrett, extension educator for agriculture with Ohio State University Extension in Washington County, said organic gardening basically means...

Fort Collins is taking its place as a worldwide leader in that research with CSU faculty leading the push to examine new ethanol technologies, including using different plant matter to produce ethanol fuel and using oils found in algae to produce biodiesels, Reardon said. But, citing inevitable problems with using a food crop such as corn to produce energy, critics were quick to claim Congress latest action was nothing more than another subsidy to agricultural states and corn growers. Fort...

Michigan has four operating ethanol plants - including a 53-million gallon plant in Woodbury, near Lake Odessa - capable of producing about 212 million gallons of ethanol annually from about 78 million bushels of corn, according to the Michigan Department of Agriculture. Michigan has four operating ethanol plants - including a 53-million gallon plant in Woodbury, near Lake Odessa - capable of producing about 212 million gallons of ethanol annually from about 78 million bushels of corn,...