The program would in theory appeal to farmers because it provides protection to farmers if prices or yields fall. Sherrod Brown to allow farmers to opt into a revenue-protection program aimed at mirroring market forces. Traditional federal coverage has focused on prices but not yield, and farmers have had to rely on crop insurance if yield was low. Under Brown's plan, farmers could rely on private revenue insurance, unless widespread losses keep it from being effective. Brown said his...

The growing ethanol industry, and related rises in corn prices, is staking corn growers and farmers that use corn for feed against each other. But the drop was due mainly to rising world food prices rather than changes in policies, as less support was provided to prop up domestic prices, the OECD, which groups developed countries, said in a report. The report does not include subsidies for biofuels, which are now distorting markets for crops, as they, not typically paid to farmers....

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Pam Jarboe, assistant manager at Bement-based Topflight Grain co., said harvest is pretty much over in her customer area and corn yields ranged from 180 to 200 bushels per acre. Farmers and farm managers say they're running numbers yields, market prices and input costs to decide what the best planting decisions for next spring will be. Advertisement And trains have been coming in a timely fashion to pick up the mounds of corn Fisher and other elevators had to pile on the ground, likely a...

Corn farmers are pushing for more ethanol production as the industry creates an enormous new market for their crop, giving corn prices the kind of lift they have not seen in years. The Mexican government this week put a cap on tortilla prices after prices shot up between 20 and 30 percent over uncertainty that there would be enough U. Markets Ethanol boom, rising corn prices divide farm lobbyists. Meat, dairy, and other food producers are pushing back against the ethanol boom as higher...