Plastic from corn 

Soaring oil prices past $50/barrel are helping to boost demand for corn-based plastic resins produced by Cargill Dow. The company substitutes corn in...

Crops department 

Fast unloading. Deciding to tile. Bifenthrin registered. Weed control for small grains. Soybean rust CD. soybeans lack SCN resistance....

The independents 

By: by Karen McMahon

Local seed companies seek their place in a competitive market....

Seed of the future 

By: by Jodie Wehrspann and Karen McMahon

Imagine corn that can stand up to the coldest spring and the driest summer, resist all major pest threats, yield more than 200 bu. in a bad year, and...

Monsanto sues Syngenta on RR corn 

By: By Wayne Wenzel

Monsanto says it is suing Syngenta over Roundup Ready corn patent rights. ...

Monsanto shelves RR wheat 

By: by Wayne Wenzel

Wheat growers expressed a mix of relief and disappointment in response to Monsanto's recent announcement ...

Hydrogen corn economy 

By: by Wayne Wenzel

New discovery could make ethanol a practical energy source....

Hydrogen corn economy 

By: by Wayne Wenzel

A recent discovery by University of Minnesota researchers could someday make ethanol from corn the preferred source of hydrogen fuel. The event marks...

Crops 

Electric pump for controllers. Alert to bioterrorism tested. Phosphorus's bad rap. Gum from soybeans. Fast spraying from Fast. GDU monitor available. Frost-tolerant corn....

At a premium 

By: by Joan Olson

EACH WEEK, L&R Rusch Farm in Vincennes, IN, delivers food-grade white and yellow corn directly to a tortilla factory in Atlanta, GA. A restaurant owner...