…announcement, China this week approved the import of Dow Enlist corn and Monsanto’s soybean variety, Vistive Gold. The approval stems from China agreeing to speed reviews of biotech products as…
Organic Industry to Create Anti-fraud Task Force
…use in verifying its international supply chains. The task force follows news of a shipment of fraudulent organic corn and soybeans that entered the United States from Turkey. The task…
USDA Releases Latest WASDE Report
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report released Friday offered no changes to U.S. corn ending stocks and increased the ending stocks estimate…
Agri View: Talk Continues on Effects of the Wall
…commodities like rice, corn, soybeans, and cotton could fall dramatically. Mexico is the top market for these commodities. Vietnam could supply the Mexico’s rice needs. It could be difficult to…
NCGA Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Find the Next Big Thing for Corn
…The “Consider Corn Challenge” is a starting point to help the industry realize corn’s full potential. “Corn has a history of being an abundant, cost-effective, and sustainable feedstock for chemicals…
Pork Checkoff Builds Momentum for Secure Pork Supply Plan
…industries from an FMD outbreak would run $12.8 billion per year or $128 billion over a 10-year period. Related losses to corn and soybean markets over a decade would be…
NCGA Launches Open Innovation Challenge to Find the Next Big Thing for Corn
The Consider Corn Challenge Seeks New Uses for Field Corn as Feedstock for Sustainable Chemicals The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with innovation facilitator NineSigma, announced the launch of…
Year of Purple Foods
…sweet cereals like Frosted Flakes, there’s a healthy version in the color purple called Peace Cereal. The purple corn is rich in anthocyanins, which offer anti-inflammatory and antiviral properties. The…
U.S. Grains Council Statement On Announcement Of New Sugar Suspension Agreement
…a critical market for the U.S. grains industry – the top export destination for U.S. corn last year, the second largest buyer of U.S. distiller’s dried grains with solubles (DDGS)…
Fatal Injuries Reported in Wisconsin Corn Mill Explosion
Photo via @deafgeoff At least one is dead and others missing as of Thursday afternoon following an explosion at a Wisconsin corn mill. Two workers remained missing Thursday after the…
Corn Replant Expected to reach “Historic” Levels
Seed industry leaders are expecting corn replant rates this year to reach historic levels. Ryan Parkin of Beck’s Hybrids told DTN-The Progressive Farmer “this will be a historic replant year,…
NAFTA a Success Story for Agriculture
…corn from Brazil, according to Tiemann. He says since the inception of NAFTA, U.S. ag exports to Canada and Mexico tripled and quintupled respectively. Noting concerns of the renegotiation of…
Plant Health and Production Workforce Funding from USDA
…Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, $400,000 Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, $500,000 Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, $500,000 Alcorn State University, Lorman, Mississippi, $400,000 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, $461,187…
Funding For Commodity Board Projects to Support Ag Industry
…received a NIFA grant of $490,000, funded jointly with a consortia of the Iowa Corn Promotion Board, Illinois Corn Marketing Board, Minnesota Corn Research and Promotion Council, Nebraska Corn Board,…