buck55 has posted a new entry on: The Conservation Report
Growing fast food: Cattle fed on corn eventually become sick and die. Via a transcript from Fresh Air with Terry Gross (emphasis added): GROSS: Let’s get back to the cow’s stomach. Mr. POL…
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powerfulcars has posted a new entry on: Sugar Industry
The October World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report projected that the 2009 U.S. corn crop would be 13.02 billion bushels. Combined with 1.67 billion bushels of beginning stocks and a s…
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EthanolSource has posted a new entry on: Ethanol Source Org. NPO
U.S. farmers could grow enough corn to produce 25 billion gallons of ethanol in 2030, twice as much as this year’s target of 12 billion gallons, said Darrin Ihnen, president of the National Corn Gro…
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sugarcaneblog has posted a new entry on: SugarcaneBlog
U.S. farmers could grow enough corn to produce 25 billion gallons of ethanol in 2030, twice as much as this year's target of 12 billion gallons, said Darrin Ihnen, president of the National Corn Growe…
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mwriceny has posted a new entry on: Ranking America
According to the USDA, in 2008-09, the United States produced 307.39 million tonnes of corn, or 38.9% of the world’s total corn production. That was enough to make the United States rank first i…
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stopyellingdaddy has posted a new entry on: Stop Yelling Daddy
"That'll be eleven organic dollars, please."Some woman I've never heard of named Charlotte Allen was just on NPR's "Talk of the Nation" discussing her op-ed in today's LA Times titled "Keep Your Self-…
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agripinoy has posted a new entry on: AgriPinoy.net
Young cob corn, the newly developed corn, has been used by Chinese as vegetable for generations and this practice has spread to other Asian countries. It is used as ingredient in most food preparation…
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