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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.
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.
The following are international Maize (corn) production statistics come from the Food and Agriculture Organization figures from FAOSTAT statics The quantities of corn (maize, Zea mays) in the following table are in million metric tonnes (m STs, m LTs). All countries with a typical production quantity of at least 10 million t (11 million short ...
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 ...
The 1861–2007 graph uses yearly averages, and I couldn't think of a really satisfying way to incorporate the price jumps of the past couple of months. Anyway, I think it's alright for a graph of 150 years of history to wait until the year's end to incorporate its data.
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 ...
Dyersville was a mining town — now a ghost town — in Summit County, Colorado, United States. It was named after Methodist minister John Lewis Dyer . Nothing remains of the town except the roofless walls of a couple of log cabins.
As a result of this effort DeKalb AgResearch sold hybrid corn seed beginning in 1935. Sales expanded rapidly as Roberts organized a force of farmer-dealers, who were paid a 15% commission. The first popular hybrid was DeKalb 404A, which sold 508,000 bags in 1947, the same year total DeKalb sales exceeded 2,000,000 bags of seed corn.