With a huge and growing corn surplus, U.S. corn farmers say they need new uses for their grain – yesterday. NCGA President Kevin Skunes grows corn in North Dakota. At the Corn Utilization and Technology Conference (CUTC) in St. Louis, Skunes told Brownfield Ag News it’s important to keep doing research and looking for those new uses, “At this conference we’re not going to find, maybe, the next ethanol. But what we need is maybe SIX of the next things that maybe equal the next ethanol.”
Dennis Maple, who grows corn, soybeans, wheat and hogs in north central Indiana is chairman of the NCGA Corn Productivity Quality Action Team and tells Brownfield any process that comes from corn kernels fascinates him, “We’ve got a big pile of corn yet.
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