Iowa officials have canceled a $2.5 million grant for a firm proposing a technology to make fertilizer from corn cobs.
"We create a partnership with our members," Kay Jensen says. "We as farmers have to worry about the weather, insects, weeds and other things that affect our crops and so do our members because they know what they eat that week will be effected."
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The rent for farmland in Iowa has increased 18 percent from last year, continuing a multi-year trend and reflecting continued strong demand for corn and soybeans.
Wisconsin's winter wheat harvest production is expected to be about 23 percent less than in 2011 because of reduced acres, while the national crop is anticipated to be 13 percent higher. This is according to the state and federal agricultural statistical services' first forecast of the years,