Many grain elevators are storing the recently cut corn on the ground because the elevators are still full of wheat. There are about 250,000 bushels of corn on the ground at the Iuka grain elevator, with thousands more bushels waiting to be brought in. Instead, prices are at record highs because so much grain is being used for ethanol production. Pratt County is one location where piles of corn on the ground continue to grow. But other parts of the state saw this year's wheat crop decimated...

The program would in theory appeal to farmers because it provides protection to farmers if prices or yields fall. Sherrod Brown to allow farmers to opt into a revenue-protection program aimed at mirroring market forces. Traditional federal coverage has focused on prices but not yield, and farmers have had to rely on crop insurance if yield was low. Under Brown's plan, farmers could rely on private revenue insurance, unless widespread losses keep it from being effective. Brown said his...

The growing ethanol industry, and related rises in corn prices, is staking corn growers and farmers that use corn for feed against each other. But the drop was due mainly to rising world food prices rather than changes in policies, as less support was provided to prop up domestic prices, the OECD, which groups developed countries, said in a report. The report does not include subsidies for biofuels, which are now distorting markets for crops, as they, not typically paid to farmers....

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Pam Jarboe, assistant manager at Bement-based Topflight Grain co., said harvest is pretty much over in her customer area and corn yields ranged from 180 to 200 bushels per acre. Farmers and farm managers say they're running numbers yields, market prices and input costs to decide what the best planting decisions for next spring will be. Advertisement And trains have been coming in a timely fashion to pick up the mounds of corn Fisher and other elevators had to pile on the ground, likely a...

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...

Corn prices have jumped with demand for the crop to make ethanol. Those in the agricultural industry said there may be some increased spending in farm communities thanks to higher prices, but they don t expect a lot. The increase has been a boon to farmers who have struggled through years of depressed prices. At least 20 percent of this year s corn will be used for the fuel additive. Some farmers saw crops wilt in dry, hot July, while others lost them in August flooding. Farmers have...

Historically high prices for agricultural commodities have people wondering if we have entered a new era where prices are stabilizing at higher plateaus or will we see prices fall back to previous levels. Although some can offer convincing arguments that global demand growth is outstripping our ability to produce some commodities, the short answer to the question is we have not entered a new era of permanently higher commodity prices and prices will fall, but probably not to previous...

This would allow the rye plant to go to seed producing both food for livestock and seed for the next year s planting. By Bill Young Of the 512 farmers listed on the 1860 agricultural census only 63 informed the census taker they had grown rye on their land. Did they each decide on their own to grow rye or was the area they lived in better suited to grow rye? Since they were more or less neighbors, not necessarily close neighbors, could one of the three convinced the other two rye would...