Partnerships

Soil Management Summit 2025 set for January

Reading Time: 3 minutesMinnesota Corn sponsors the Soil Management Summit as part of its mission to increase the efficiency and productivity of corn farming.

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Seeing (and meeting) is believing

Reading Time: 4 minutesAgronomy Field Day at UMN research center connects farmers to researchers

Written by Jonathan Eisenthal

Science guides farmers’ choices in everything from planting date to fertilizer rates to which combination of herbicides to use to combat water hemp.

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Four Questions for NCGA President Kenneth Hartman Jr.

Reading Time: 3 minutesNCGA’s Brooke Appleton learns more about the 2024-25 board president Kenneth Hartman, a fifth-generation family farmer in Illinois.

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With patience, Ken Weber harvests the data

Reading Time: 5 minutesMartin County farmer Ken Weber recently wrapped up his 30th year participating in Minnesota Corn’s Variety Plot program.

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U.S. corn, ethanol exports increase

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs of July, U.S. corn exports were up 34.3% year over year during the 2024 marketing year, which ended in August.

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Spotlighting Minnesota’s Ag Water Quality Certification Program

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe voluntary Agricultural Water Quality Certification Program helps Minnesota farmers protect water resources.

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Join Minnesota Corn, partners at events in September!

Reading Time: 2 minutesJoin Minnesota Corn starting this week for a series of fall events around the state to promote corn, biofuels, and corn co-products.

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Latest: A new corn-based polymer precursor

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Through farmers’ investment in the corn check-off, Minnesota Corn is supporting an effort by a University of Minnesota-based start-up to produce 110 pounds of a monomer called Nuvone from corn-based sugars.

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Crop scouting event gives students hands-on plant science experience

Reading Time: 2 minutesStudents from across the state participated in the annual University of Minnesota Extension 4-H/FFA crop scouting contest in July.

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