Nov. 5: A National Corn Growers Association sponsorship is helping representatives from various sectors of the agricultural industry explore current trends in ports, ocean freight, rail and other transportation ...

Nov. 4: This afternoon, Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.), along with four other cosponsors, introduced agricultural offsets legislation in the Senate that shares many similarities ...

Nov. 4: The Dec. 1 deadline for completed harvest forms for those growers participating in the 2009 National Corn Yield Contest is fast approaching, and the National Corn Growers Association reminds entrants ...

First, he was caught spreading a good-sounding factoid that turned out to be wrong. He manned up and corrected his mistake, but he should have known better.

Nov. 3: The National Corn Growers Association testified today before a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Advisory Panel that was convened in the wake of the EPA’s newly announced comprehensive review of health and ecological risks associated with the commonly used herbicide atrazine.

Nov. 3: With much of the Corn Belt experiencing a delayed harvest due to extremely wet conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency has offered guidance on its crop insurance procedures to affected farmers. ...

Nov. 3: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it will uphold its May 2009 decision to revoke food tolerances for the pesticide carbofuran, commonly known as Furadan. This rule will ban the use of carbofuran on food crops after December 31, 2009. ...

Plaza III, arguably the best steakhouse in Kansas City, now includes in their ad copy that “the beef is corn-fed, custom selected and aged.” While those with an uninformed palate might follow the grass-fed ...