Corn Prices

Picky About the Pickens Plan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 09.23.2008 | Green


Christiana Wyly

"Son, I used to be IN the Oil Lobby! We don't have to worry about them. We the people are more powerful than any lobby any day of the week."

Mixing Water Into The Energy Debate

Rob Runyan | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home


Rob Runyan

Dealing with one sector without thinking about the other is one-hand clapping. That's why we have popular alternative fuels like ethanol that don't factor in the drain on water resources.

Biofuel Future Threatened By Severe Weather

New York Times | Jad Mouawad | Posted 07.01.2008 | Green


The record storms and floods that swept through the Midwest last month struck at the heart of America's corn region, drowning fields and dashing hopes...

Midwest Flooding Threatens Crops

International Herald Tribune | Susan Saulny | Posted 06.17.2008 | Green


NEWHALL, Iowa: Here, in some of the best soil in the world, the stunted stalks of Dave Timmerman's newly planted corn are wilting in what sometimes lo...

Floods Force Corn Prices Up, Up, Up

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Corn prices reached another record Monday, closing in on $8 a bushel, as devastating Midwest floods raised fears of a sharply smaller...

Food Price Inflation Changes How We Shop

AP | ALAN SCHER ZAGIER | Posted 03.31.2008 | Business


Steadily rising food costs aren't just causing grocery shoppers to do a double-take at the checkout line _ they're also changing the very ways we feed...