U.S. Heartland Is Bursting with Corn, Soy
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ROCHELLE, Ill.  - Golden mountains are rising out  of the fertile farmlands of the U.S. Midwest, a changing  landscape formed by huge piles of corn from the most bountiful  harvest in U.S. history.
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Biotech crops are flourishing in the United States, but they're also taking root across the globe, accounting for about &#36;44 billion in crops in five leading countries, according to a report Wednesday by an industry group.
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The global food business is gargantuan and growing fast.
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CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis.  - Farmer Kathleen Vinehout  knows why guns and abortion, favored Republican Party themes,  trump the economy or health care at election time in a swathe  of states stretching from Texas to the Canadian border.
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In the upper Midwest, a church coalition coordinates 50 winter markets â and offers additional help to farmers struggling to stay solvent.
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By BETSY BLANEY    LUBBOCK, Texas  -- Some farmers are placing their hope in a hybrid sunflower seed that could help keep arteries clear and hearts pumping in a nation smitten with snacks and processed food.    "It's a healthier oil," said Willie Wieck, 62, who started growing sunflowers on his 450 acres in the Texas Panhandle in the early 1970s...
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Competing for votes in corn-growing Iowa, John Kerry waved to crowds with one ear in each hand. Not to be outdone by his Democratic rival, President Bush ate one raw.
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By CRYSTALR. REID  North Dakota has coal, oil and, more recently, ethanol from its corn.  Its landscape is dotted with corn, wheat, canola, soybeans and pulse crops. In between sit conservation lands, open prairie with native grasses.
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CHICAGO   Soybean futures jumped higher Wednesday on the Chicago Board of Trade. Grain futures declined.
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Want an early hint how the Republican caucuses are going? Check Plymouth County Thursday evening in remote northwest Iowa Â chilly home of Blue Bunny ice cream and a hotbed of evangelical activists who could sway the first voting of the 2008 presidential campaign.
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Above-normal temperatures prevailed across the U.S. heartland last week, helping late summer crops mature.  The U.S. Agriculture Department Tuesday said temperatures were mostly below normal along the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, the eastern Corn Belt, Southeast and Rocky Mountains.
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By Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 10--HUTCHINSON -- Disaster aid for drought-stricken parts of the state, money challenges to the 2007 farm bill, changes to farm policy, and gaining markets for U.S.
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Even in the Midwest where ethanol is most popular, its success as an alternative fuel is far from assured.
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PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa  - Gordon Wassenaar has his eye on a $300,000 combine harvester to replace the 1990 model he repairs each winter in the workshop on his farm. And he just bought more land to add to his 1,600-acre spread.
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U.S. consumers will see higher grocery bills this year thanks to a surge in wholesale corn prices, pushed higher by an ethanol fuel boom, that will be passed on by food manufacturers, the industry said on Wednesday.
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By CHRIS YOUNG OUTDOORS EDITOR  The push to produce more renewable fuels such as ethanol has to be about the best news for corn growers since Henry Wallace introduced hybrid varieties in the 1920s.
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Organic chocolate sales are booming as more U.S. consumers seeking untreated natural ingredients are choosing the sweet treat to satisfy their cravings, and mainstream companies are entering what was once considered a high-end market.