Corn Farming

The food in your kitchen cabinets may not be what it seems."I guarantee you any time a product can be passed off as something more expensive, it will be. It's that simple," Larry Olmsted, author of "Real Food/Fake Food," told…

The United States has just about 90 million planted acres of corn, and there's a reason people refer to the crop as yellow gold.In 2021, U.S. corn was worth over $86 billion, according to calculations from FarmDoc and the United States…

The United Nations' worst-case scenario calculation is that global food prices will rise by an additional 8.5% by 2027.More expensive fertilizers are contributed to those higher costs, with some fertilizers spiking 300% since September…

Soil can be considered black gold, and we're running out it.The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years."There are places that have already lost all of their topsoil," Jo Handelsman, author of "A…