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Corn prices are now up about 10% over the past month. The surge came after prices hit 2020 lows last year due to oversupply, which eroded farmers' incomes and hit the rural economy hard.
These commodities' prices did not recover until the late 1830s, although to a significantly lower price level. Most damaging was the price of cotton: the U.S.'s main export. Food crop prices, which had been high because of the famine of 1816 that was caused by the year without a summer, fell after the return of normal harvests in 1818. Improved ...
1926 - Hi-Bred Corn Company is founded in Des Moines, Iowa, with $7,000 in capital. [7] 1931 - Roswell Garst agrees to produce/distribute seed. The following year Garst partners with Charles Thomas to form the Garst and Thomas Seed Corn Company. 1935 - "Pioneer" was added to the name of the company to distinguish it from other hybrid corn ...
A remarkable run-up in prices of wheat, corn, oilseeds, rice, and dairy products, along with sharply higher energy prices, have been blamed on supply shortfalls, strong demand for bio-fuels, and an inflow of $150 billion from investment funds. From a year ago, Chicago wheat futures have soared +120%, corn +20%, and soybeans are +80% higher.
Lost in the corn hubbub has been the rise of wheat, barley, and other grains. Grains as a whole (pun intended) have risen 54% in the last year, an increase that is devastating for food ...
Monsanto (NYS: MON) announced recently that it will raise prices of its DeKalb brand of corn seeds by 5% to 10% next year, citing increased costs and strong demand. What makes this odd is that the ...
1988; 37 years ago () Field of Dreams is a baseball field and pop-culture tourist attraction built for the 1989 movie of the same name . It is located in Dyersville, Iowa , within Dubuque County .
During Halloween, Americans buy chocolate candy at almost a 2:1 ratio. But the growth market is in non-chocolate candy and Americans are buying less and less candy corn, consumer data shows, and ...