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FINDLAY, Ill. (WCIA) — Troy Uphoff of Findlay has great soil and he knows how to grow high-yield corn. His plot was entered into a nationwide contest hosted by the National Corn Growers ...
He was elected to the Nebraska Legislature in November 2018 and assumed office on January 9, 2019. [3] Brandt was a member of the Farm Credit Services of America Advisory Council, Southeast Nebraska Corn Growers, and Board of Directors of the Farmers Cooperative Dorchester.
Francis Childs (August 30, 1939 - January 9, 2008) was a hog farmer and champion corn farmer from Manchester, Iowa.He is known for being the first farmer to have corn yields of over 400 bushels per acre in controlled contest plots, achieving that level in 2001 and 2002.
U.S. growers held a whopping 7.83 billion bushels of corn in storage bins on their farms as of Dec. 1, the most ever for that date and up 16% from a nine-year low in December 2022, U.S. government ...
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.
Barb Boustead remembers learning about corn sweat when she moved to Nebraska about 20 years ago to work for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and found herself plunked down in an ...
Born in Leigh, Nebraska, Johannes earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Concordia University Nebraska in education and performed graduate studies at the University of Nebraska. Johannes then taught grade-school during a span of 4.5 years before returning to home in Nebraska to grow soybeans and corn and raise livestock on his family farm. [1]
In the early 1980s the Omaha-based company Scoular Grain was a growing agribusiness led by Nebraska grain industry executive Marshall Faith. Faith, along with several other investors, had acquired what was then Scoular-Bishop Grain Company in 1967 [5] and expanded its operations from three grain elevators to dozens of locations in multiple states, and was beginning to branch out beyond grain ...