Concerned with the misunderstanding about transgenic corn, Wambugu created A Harvest Biotech Foundation International to serve as a pan-African voice on the issue.
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This week, for example, the European Union joined Canada and a bunch of others in making a formal complaint about America's corn subsidies.
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For example, a farmer here in Iowa who's worried about the price of corn could buy a derivative that increases in value when the price of corn falls, so regardless of what happens with his crop, he has a chance to break even.
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Problem is you guys force cows to eat corn instead of grass, I even remember as a kid during my first vacations in the US when some waitress at an upscale restaurant was bragging about their AAA grade corn-feed beef steak, which was only slightly less chewy than leather.
Among the largest underlying components of VB, in trading today Panera Bread Co. ( NASD: PNRA) is up about 0.6%, Corn Products International Inc ( NYSE: CPO) is up about 1.9%, and Oil States International, Inc. ( NYSE: OIS) is higher by about 2.2%.
Still, the group this week joined other animal producers in calling for a reduction in corn ethanol production mandates, saying pricing and availability of corn for feed is threatened by the combination of a small corn crop this year and the government mandate, which will use about four of every 10 bushels of corn.
Breastfeeding advocates raised legitimate concerns about breast milk alternatives (corn syrups for babies?) and many women who decided to breastfeed and practice attachment parenting genuinely believed that going natural was the better route.
Scouts trudged into fields of both corn and soybean along a direct westerly route across the Midwest region that accounts for about 75 percent of U.S. corn and soy production.
Since mid-June, corn prices have risen about 60%, more than twice the projected decline in yield.
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In pursuit of energy independence, the United States is diverting about a quarter of the national corn crop to produce ethanol fuel.
As an example of the impact of high prices, a stronger dollar and lower demand, Setzer said corn exports are down about 14% year-to-date.
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In the long term, the southern district also face heavy crop losses since rice, beans and corn which were just about to be harvested, have been destroyed.
Since U.S. farmers provide about 70% of all global corn exports, even small diversions for ethanol production have produced high inflation levels in America and shortages abroad.
Corn, he concedes, is an energy-intensive crop, but Tumbleson says he may be better off than wheat or soybean farmers because corn is in just about everything we eat.
On chemical treatments, for 1997, pesticide treatment was about the same for pest resistant and conventional corn.
Weather isn't just about what to wear, although that matters, but about livestock: hay supplies, feed and corn, deicers and water flow, shelter from the wind and wet.
According to the department, 63% of the nation's hay acreage and about 73% of cattle acreage are in drought areas, as are about 87% of U.S. corn and 85% of soybeans.
In 2011, about 40% of U.S. corn crops were diverted to ethanol (a quarter, if we take into account that nutritional content is recycled back into feeds for animals in the form of distiller grains).
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She took pictures of her husband as he posed with admirers, and animatedly joined in a debate about the relative merits of Carolina and Long Island corn.
Corn and wheat prices have both risen by about 45% in the past month alone.
But states such as Missouri and Iowa have tremendous amounts of corn and you never hear anyone wax poetic about fine Iowa bourbon.
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About 75% of all food found in the supermarket contains corn, officials say.
Surrounded by corn, soybean and dairy farms, Athens is about 12 miles from Battle Creek, home to cereal maker Kellogg Co.
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There are an estimated five million flex-fuel vehicles but only about 500 E85 fuel stations and most of those in the corn belt.
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