Allen, M., " How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Crunching the numbers on alternative fuels ", Popular Mechanics, May 2006, pp. 74-81.M. Allen: How far can you drive on a bushel...
When you buy an ear of corn or a bag of wheat flour at a supermarket, you probably don't pay much attention to where they were grown or milled. That's because both corn and flour are commodities. Commodities trading is the buying and selling of these interchangeable materials in bulk. O...
Moving ahead to the late spring, the price of wheat has fallen to $500 per bushel, which would have been a loss of $100 x 5,000 = $500,000 for the farmer. However, at harvest, the farmer also buys back (or lets expire) the short futures position, which is a gain of $100 x ...
How do you grow 500-bushel corn? Start with 500-bushel stand.The article offers suggestions from Georgia farmer Randy Dowdy, on growing 500-bushel-per-acre corn without crop rotation by protecting crops from diseases, providing nutrients, and use of fungicides....
How high can corn go? Spring corn calls at $11 per bushel evoke concerns.(MARKETING)Bedell, Dehise