Corn

Weather challenges in the Southern Hemisphere could send U.S. soybean prices higher, says DuWayne Bosse, a producer and market analyst with Bolt Marketing.

Many farmers are focused on bringing in the harvest and mapping out marketing decisions for the fall and winter. Yet there are plenty of entrepreneurs willing to look past rows of corn and soybeans to the potential profit locked inside unusual plants. U.S. producers are investigating sales possibilities for crops such as hemp, pawpaw fruit and edamame, three different crops with similar challenges. Farmers who intend to grow them must learn all of their agronomic needs, crunch the numbers on costs and ensure the necessary infrastructure is in place to process and market them. For those who break into a niche, the revenue can be tremendous.

A New York snack business is using Nebraska corn to create munchies from ingredients that haven’t been genetically modified.

It’s harvest time. That means it’s time for #cabcorn pictures.

A northern Iowa farmer has been given six months in prison for selling corn that was pledged as collateral on federal Farm Service Agency loans of more than $196,000.

Country says it has enough corn to last until next year.

Tariffs could make Argentine kernels cheaper than American.

Country better prepared to handle outbreak than rest of region.

Farmers in Sac, Calhoun and Buena Vista exhaled a collective sigh of relief this week when Iowa’s Supreme Court ruled Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) cannot sue the counties. The company was seeking damages for excess nitrates in the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers.

A 200-bu.-per-acre corn crop consumes 330 lb. to 350 lb. of nitrogen per acre. Know your soil’s nitrogen-supplying power to fine-tune application rates.