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Corn is the foundation of US fast food.

Interesting, if off topic, Maribo has piece on the way that the US fast food industry is built on corn. I'll have the corn with a side of corn , too.

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-18-2008
Corn estimates down in the US

The US Department of Agrculture has lowered its estimates of the volume of corn and soy that will be harvested this year. So 2008 will only be the second largest crop in history. It might have been higher if the weather had been better. That story's in the Des Moines Register . You should subscribe...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-06-2008
US almost out of corns stocks by harvest 09

The US will be almost out of corn stocks by harvest 09, according to Phil Brasher in the Des Moines Register. You must read the article it points up the complete failure of corn to ethanol as a sensible economic or fuel policy . Key quote 1 Corn supplies are projected to fall by one-third to just more...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-24-2008
Fertilizer and biofuels

The New York Times has discovered that you need fertiliser to grow corn . The august organ has also discovered that not all the nitrogen fertiliser gets absorbed by the plants and that it can run off into rivers and cause dead zones where these discharge into the sea. Thanks to uncorrelated .

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 04-30-2008

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