In its long history, corn ethanol has seen some highs and lows, but the best could still be yet to come Picture this: the year is 1900. A horse trots down a […]
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Corn Food
For most Midwesterners, Summer can be boiled down to a buttered slab of corn on the cob, but there’s so much more you can do with a tasty pile of kernels. With […]
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Pioneering the Future by Preserving the Past
Iowa woman keeps grandfather’s memory alive by accumulating historical corn items and agricultural pride Like many Iowans, Lila Akrad spent a large portion of her childhood playing in cornfields. Akrad fondly remembers […]
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A Century Farm
52 years of farming and Mike Wurmnest loves every second of it. In a time where family farms are shrinking, the Wurmnest farm is growing. Urban Plains travelled to Deer Creek, Illinois […]