Articles Tagged: Corn

The ethanol industry has been a stabilizing force for corn prices in recent years, and boosting ethanol demand might help counteract diminished farm income.

U.S. growers, who had worried about the potential loss of the single biggest export market for U.S. corn, welcomed the decision, calling it “a major win.”

The end of harvest matches recent drought years even though November has been the eighth-wettest on record. Record yields are expected.

“As you drive across the Midwest, maybe in the next seven, eight, 10 years, you're going to see a lot of this out there,” said Cameron Sorgenfrey, an eastern Iowa farmer who has been growing newly developed short corn for several years, sometimes prompting puzzled looks from neighboring farmers. “I think this is going to change agriculture in the Midwest."

Ample soil moisture has boosted crops after years of drought, but corn and soybean prices have dwindled.

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New U.S. Department of Agriculture data reveals that some counties, especially in Northeast and East-Central Iowa, produced millions less bushels last year.

Corn yields went up, soybeans yields dipped and hay yields plummeted, according to USDA data. Local disparities aren’t known yet.

Farmers should request refunds of the penny-per-bushel fee they pay for their sold corn to protest the Iowa Corn Growers Association’s support of carbon pipelines, according to some pipeline opponents.

Statewide average precipitation was 3.12 inches in October, but state is still 7 inches short of moisture this year.

Predicted rains may help replenish soil moisture before the ground freezes over.

Crop yields will likely take a hit, although impacts will be variable field to field.

Irrigation is slowly but surely gaining ground in Iowa. It comes with some drawbacks to consider

Sagging ears just short of maturity, cobs half bare of kernels as if nibbled, earth so dry that deep cracks crisscross the fields: The U.S. corn harvest is in trouble.

Iowa State University is doing on-farm trials on 148 fields across the state this summer to try to find the optimum rate of nitrogen fertilizer to boost corn productivity, while avoiding runoff into rivers and lakes.