If you are going to battle with a dragon, you’d better have some good ammunition. Many farmers have wished for that ammunition when they are confronted by the media or farm program critics who fire away with statistics that put agriculture in a bad light.
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So you don’t like eating peas? Then how about fueling your car or truck with them? That’s a possibility Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are exploring—using a type of fuel called ethanol, made from the legume’s starch.
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The current corn market is characterized by surplus stocks, but corn consumption is increasing rapidly. Corn demand is expected to remain strong into the 2006-07 marketing year and beyond.
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Tuscola Economic Development Inc. was awarded a $25,000 grant Thursday for assistance in developing an estimated 50 million-gallon ethanol facility in Douglas County.
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Reduced plantings and rapidly increasing consumption of corn will magnify the importance of the 2006 growing season, said a University of Illinois Extension marketing specialist.
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Every year, entomologists with the Illinois Insect Management Research Program in the Department of Crop Sciences conduct numerous insect management research trials in Illinois.
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The full impact of our warm winter temperatures will not be known, but one of the first warnings coming from researchers is to be on the lookout for corn flea beetles, which should have overwintered nicely, thank you.
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Midwest senators, Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind., introduced a new bill, The American Fuels Act of 2006, which advocates use of renewable fuel technologies to greatly decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil.
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Maybe it’s supposed to be ironic, this former corn field, sprouting 109 people-sized ears of concrete corn in a large oddball art display. But it’s also a salute to Sam Frantz, an inventor of hybrid corns, and a very weird sight along the highway.
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Extension Update is a weekly summary of news from Extension, government, and other attributable sources, focused on marketing, farm management, and other issues that are of interest to Midwestern farm owners and operators.
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