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  2. Illinois, Iowa farmers eye soybeans as potentially profitable ...

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    In northern Illinois, farmers could lose $140 per acre on average for corn and $30 an acre for soybeans with autumn delivery prices of $4.50 and $11.50 a bushel, respectively, the analysis showed.

  3. Food prices are on the rise again. What’s behind the increase

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    On the Sunday before Thanksgiving, a grocery store here was plumb out of eggs. An hour and a half north in Richfield, some eggs could be had, but they weren’t cheap. That dozen cost $1.70 more ...

  4. Cash-strapped US farmers switch to generic crop chemicals, in ...

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    Nearly one-third of all the pesticides and fungicides that Paul Butler uses on his Illinois soybean and corn farm are generic to help him cut costs in a tight year, he said. Fellow Illinois grain ...

  5. Corn production in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The US is the world's largest producer of corn. [8] According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the average U.S. yield for corn was 177 bushels per acre, up 3.3 percent over 2020 and a record high, with 16 states posting state records in output, and Iowa reporting a record of 205 bushels of corn per acre.

  6. 2007–2008 world food price crisis - Wikipedia

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    Corn prices on the Chicago Board of Trade dropped from US$7.99 per bushel in June to US$3.74 per bushel in mid-December; wheat and rice prices experienced similar decreases. [159] The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, however, warned against "a false sense of security", noting that the credit crisis could cause farmers to reduce plantings ...

  7. Food vs. fuel - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. has doubled corn yields over the last 40 years and expects to double them again in the next 20 years. With twice as much corn from each acre, corn can be put to new uses without taking food from the hungry or causing deforestation. US consumers buy things like corn flakes where the cost of the corn per box is around 5 cents. Most of ...

  8. Illinois among most expensive states to buy groceries ... - AOL

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    The most expensive states in order were California, Nevada and Mississippi at $297.72, $294.76 and $290.64 a week on groceries in respective order. Groceries divided by price by city, state, country

  9. Genetically modified food controversies - Wikipedia

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    The variance in yield from year to year was reduced, equivalent to a yield increase of 0.8–4.2 bushels per acre. Bushel per acre yield changes were +6.4 for European corn borer resistance, +5.76 for glufosinate tolerance, −5.98 for glyphosate tolerance and −12.22 for corn rootworm resistance.