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The markets this week, hit hard by the Thursday USDA report, but it was the dry conditions that got the attention of Jeff Peterson with Heartland Farm Partners & Mike Zuzolo with Global Commodity Analytics on this week's Nebraska Soybean Board Weekly Market Roundup. We look at corn & bean planted acres down the road,...

Americans wouldn’t be celebrating Independence Day without the help of their agrarian-loving founding fathers. George Washington was primarily a tobacco farmer, but eventually diversified into growing wheat, corn, carrots, cabbage, and a variety of other crops. Thomas Jefferson was a farmer, but he was much better at public service than raising a crop. In fact,...

If it wasn’t for corn producers, fireworks would be much more… unsafe. Fireworks need binders to burn properly. Corn is used in one of the most common binders called dextrin. The U.S. uses a lot of dextrin because Americans spend over $1 billion on fireworks annually.