The Rising Tide of Corn
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The nation's unquenchable thirst for gasoline -- and finding an alternative to what's been called our addiction to oil -- has produced an unintended consequence: The cost of the foods that fuel our bodies has jumped.
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Lucille Farms benefits from the rising price of cheese.
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U.S. farmers will reap their largest  corn, soybean and cotton crops ever, with ideal weather in the  Midwest boosting corn to 11.613 billion bushels and soybeans to  3.11 billion bushels while cotton will hit 21.5 million bales  despite hurricane damage in the Southeast, the government  forecast on Tuesday.
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Grocery shoppers probably have noticed that food and beverage prices are higher in general this year and up sharply for some products. You can blame corn.
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WASHINGTON -- The likelihood of finding $2-a-gallon gasoline in some parts of the United States is increasing by the day.
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Harmful red tide blooms along Florida's west coast in the fall are spurred when seasonal changes in wind patterns move nutrients east from the Mississippi River, scientists reported Wednesday.
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Iowa residents notice the White House hopefuls who regularly tour their state, one of the nation's premier agriculture regions, don't mention farming much, but they love ethanol. Other ag issues may take a backseat, but a pro-ethanol stance translates to farm support -- it means high prices for corn and soybeans.
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The pork producer fattens up on higher hog prices.
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A new crop of superstars is growing in our Foolish fields.
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Flatbread prices rising in Mexico Demand for eco-friendly bio-fuels in the US is being blamed for a massive rise in the price of corn in Mexico. The recent 400 per cent increase in the price of a tortilla has driven thousands of Mexico's poorest people onto the streets in protest.â¦
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Corn and soybean prices were slightly  higher on Friday, bouncing back from early losses made after a  government report said U.S. farmers this year would harvest  more bushels of each commodity than ever before.
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Oil prices have gone up sharply in the past month because of production snags in the Gulf of Mexico, where more than 22.6 million barrels of production have been lost since Hurricane Ivan hit mid-September.
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Rising prices are causing Chinese companies to raise prices for exports, particularly on one critical commodity: pork.
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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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Business & money: Â· Call to catch up with big energy crop producersÂ· Concerns over food supply are 'absolute nonsense'
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The cotton industry is concerned about the discovery of a herbicide-resistant weed that spreads easily, can grow an inch a day even during droughts and could force farmers to return to older growing methods that were harsher on the environment.
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Fears of world food shortages caused by booming use of sugar cane and corn to produce ethanol fuel for motor vehicles are overblown and politically motivated, analysts and politicians said on Monday.