Corn

Too much supply, not enough demand and limited prospects for a significant improvement in export demand leave the grain and soybean markets grasping for bullish news on the weather front. A summer weather rally may happen, but I wouldn’t use pen if writing that into your marketing plan.

Curtis Thompson, weed management specialist, has compiled information about seven corn herbicides newly available for the 2016 growing season.

Chip Flory to host new market-oriented radio show.

Weekly Export Inspections Report highlights.

Cancellations are not a surprise given ongoing issues with unapproved GMO varieties.

FOMC announces additional $10-billion-per-month reduction in asset-purchases.

Jamie Walter, CEO and president of Whiskey Acres, was in search of ways to diversify his family’s 2,000-acre corn and soybean operation when inspiration hit: What if they used their grain as a feature ingredient in premium spirits such as vodka, whiskey and bourbon? In 2011, they decided to see if they could make an on-farm distillery work.

Records are made to be broken, and the record for high-yielding corn has been broken once again, according to the National Corn Growers Association 2015 National Corn Yield Contest results.

Cases claim the company caused losses by marketing MIR162 before Chinese approval

A refinery designed to make ethanol from cornstalks, leaves and cobs — not the grain itself — opened Friday in central Iowa, the culmination of a $225 million construction project and millions more invested in its engineering and design.