However, the higher corn prices may be negative for some of the livestock producers that will have to bid for corn against ethanol plants and foreign exports. Generally, the growth of the ethanol industry likely will reduce the amount of corn available for exports or livestock feed. In a short crop year, the potential is for very strong corn prices as ethanol plants and other corn-dependent industries bid for limited stocks. The question for the industry is how many more acres will switch...

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That's because farmers expect to harvest 3.78 million acres of corn for grain, up 28 percent from the 2.96 million acres harvested last year. His family farms several thousand acres, including 600 acres of vegetables that are sold to major chain stores and to food-service companies. Ohio farmers are expected to produce more corn than ever this year, despite lower yields per acre due to spotty drought conditions, according to forecasts from the U. Demand for ethanol, a fuel made from corn,...

IT is indeed quite alarming that Nepal, which once was an exporter of food grains, has now turned into an importer of the same. The agricultural production over the span of twenty years has not been able to keep abreast with the burgeoning population. This was accompanied by an increasing trend in the ratio of agriculture import to agricultural export. There has been a decreasing trend in per capita food grain production over the years. The population growth rate in the early eighties...

The industry only wants high-quality corn to feed its babies. Grain quality experts say the rapid birth of the ethanol industry is changing the way producers and elevators store crops. Instead of farmers emptying bins months before harvest, ethanol plants want producers to store grain until combines roll again in the fall. If farmers and elevators deliver sub-par corn, it is spit out. Corn should contain no more than 16 percent moisture before going into the bin, experts recommend, but 15...