Corn prices were tumbling Monday on concerns that a forecast for a bumper crop could swamp the market. Benchmark futures prices for corn were losing 4. Sugar prices were bucking the downward trend, gaining 1% at 10 cents a pound. As for the metals, copper prices were slipping 2 cents at $3. Elsewhere, the greenback was mixed in the foreign currency markets. Other key grains were showing weakness also, with soybeans sliding 2. The dollar was lower against the yen, buying 121. Investor...

Helle gave a lukewarm review of this year's growing season, the hundreds of ears of corn heaped upon the tabletops of the farmers' market yesterday marked the start of another harvesting season in Ohio. While most market goers cook their corn, a few impatient patrons were caught gnawing on raw sweet corn. Every person buying or selling corn at the market could list a multitude of ways to prepare and eat the corn. Diane Rogers of Syd & Diane's in Perrysburg bakes her corn in the oven with...

Aaron Canart, in risk management and procurement with AgriBeef, the country's ninth-largest beef packer and 10th-largest cattle feeder, tracks the price of cattle and beef's "cut out value" that's the price per pound of a carcass, not the price of consumer cuts of beef. And all because this cattle feed, also known as corn, has experienced a new vogue in the production of ethanol fuel. Aaron Canart, in risk management and procurement with AgriBeef, the country's ninth-largest beef packer...

KOTA BARU: Kelantan will consider switching from tobacco to sweet corn as its major agriculture product within the next five years. Before this can take place, he said the state needs to find proper markets, including in other states, for its mass produced corn. He said that currently, Bachok was a primary area for tobacco planting and if the state successfully implemented sweet corn production there, right from producing its own seeds for germination, the next secondary crops in line...

With ethanol apparently here for a good while and the need for record corn crops to feed the ethanol refineries, livestock and export markets, the price of corn should not be returning to the levels of yesterday. Department of Agriculture reported farmers had planted almost 93 million acres of corn. Previous estimates predicted the planting would total about 90 million, enough to fuel the ethanol and livestock feed markets, but just barely. But economists see corn staying well above $3,...