Chargrilled sweet corn salad. Stand a cob on one end and slice downwards with a knife as close as possible to the cob to remove the kernels. Spray the corn with olive oil. Divide the snow pea sprouts, avocado and warm corn kernels among serving dishes. Cook on the chargrill, turning often, for 8 minutes or until golden. Mix the lime juice, extra virgin olive oil, salt and pepper until well combined. Drizzle with the dressing and scatter the feta to serve. Heat a chargrill pan over a...

It showed that US farmers had planted far more corn than previously estimated. Corn prices fell sharply, taking down the prices of wheat and other grains, but soybeans and other oil seeds rose strongly on news of a sharper than forecast cut in plantings. So the move upwards in Nymex WTI was mostly for technical reasons and both markets will now react evenly to market-moving events, such as the weekly release on Wednesdays of figures for US oil and product stocks. A look at the ten major...

But his grandfather had to sell the family farm in the early 1980s to pay off debt, and Bluck is struggling to return to the land in a changing agriculture industry. The opportunities for beginning farmers are dwindling as the cost of farmland goes up - it was a record $1,900 per acre nationwide last year - and established farmers hold on to their property well beyond normal retirement age. To keep farmland from being gobbled up by larger farms or sold to developers, more than two dozen...

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farmers plant 2nd-highest acreage of corn Associated Press Published June 30, 2007 DES MOINES -- Farmers this year planted the most corn since the waning days of World War II, outpacing already high expectations for the crop, according to a federal report issued Friday. farmers plant 2nd-highest acreage of corn Associated Press Published June 30, 2007 DES MOINES -- Farmers this year planted the most corn since the waning days of World War II, outpacing already high expectations for the...