National Corn Growers Association

Farmers took advantage of the dry spell last week to get 17 percent of the corn out and 14 percent more soybeans harvested last week, but this week’s wet weather has combines out of the fields again.

A California free-market think tank report finds that genetically modified (GM) crop regulations are often based on fear, and encourages evaluating GM crops by comparing their net benefits to current conventional alternative.

Apparently, last week’s International Energy Agency (IEA) numbers regarding future oil supplies were fudged to protect the innocent or at least our frail economic recovery. According to a whistleblower ...

Grant Woods’ famous 1930 “American Gothic” painting is an icon of what some people believe sustainable agriculture should be. Ma and Pa Kettle on the little idyllic farmstead making a living on the soil with their bare hands. Notice how miserable they look.

A new report out this week from USDA shows that over 85 percent of American households have enough – or more than enough – to eat. As a nation, we are food secure.

Thanks to high-tech yield-monitoring equipment, which gives the farmer a real-time readout right in the cab of his combine, John can tell how much corn the big machine is scooping up (which, of course, also tells him foot-by-foot how much corn the land is yielding).

Nov. 13: In his final days at the helm of the U.S. Grains Council, President and CEO Ken Hobbie took a moment to reflect on his nearly 34 years with the organization representing U.S. corn, barley and sorghum producers, including 19 years in the leading role.

While family farmers toil to bring in crops this fall and interesting thing is happening; folks in the organic and alternative Ag community have chosen to use the lousy harvest conditions as their latest reason to do away with our modern commodity-based food system.

As Mark noted in the previous post, last week was the annual National Association of Farm Broadcasting Trade Talk. There is probably no event like this in any industry where representatives from over 150 ...

This week an annual ritual took place which has farm broadcasters from across the nation flocking to Kansas City, MO for their annual meeting; professional development and one might even say therapeutic bonding.

USDA lowered its forecast for 2009 corn production in the latest report out today, due to lower yields. Despite the decrease, yields are still expected to be a record and production is still expected to be the second highest on record.