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Future Seed Executives (FuSE) — FuSE is an official Sub-Committee of the American Seed Trade Association’s (ASTA) Management Skills Committee. Since its formal inception in 2004, the FuSE Initiative has focused on educating and supporting future seed industry executives, namely those with fewer than seven years of seed industry experience.
This, according to the study, could lead to an average loss for U.S. soybean farmers of $3.6 billion to $5.9 billion and $0.9 billion to $1.4 billion for corn farmers in annual production value ...
The American Soybean Association (ASA) is an association of 21,000 American soybean producers. John Heisdorffer is the 2018 President of the Association. [ 1 ] Stephen Censky worked for ASA for 23 years, 21 of those as CEO, and then left to become United States Deputy Secretary of Agriculture in 2017.
A rival group, the National Corn Growers Association, is seen as more closely aligned with the food processing industry. [2] In 2008, ACGA endorsed Barack Obama's candidacy in the United States presidential elections that year. [3]
Yet corn futures prices are signaling they should hold the grain for a few months, if possible. On the Chicago Board of Trade, benchmark December corn futures were trading at a roughly 22-cent ...
In addition to being used as food, corn is a source of ethanol fuel, and the NCGA has provided standards and guidelines for farmers growing ethanol. [4]The NCGA has also advocated for continued support and subsidies from the United States government for the ethanol fuel program, citing studies on the benefits for fighting climate change of switching away from fossil fuels towards ethanol.
While their corn crop was good, and they also make money from finishing about 14,000 conventional hogs a year, they lost their entire 2024 wheat crop to disease. So that has added to the stress ...
The Eden Corn Festival is a small fair held in the agriculture-based town of Eden.Eden is located in Erie County, New York, and has some of the most fertile and well-drained soils in New York State, allowing farmers to grow over 300 acres (121 ha) of corn annually, and produce more early corn than anyone else in upstate New York.