corn
In rebuttal, T. Buis: Giving consumers a choice
Ethanol isn’t made from corn people would put on the grill, popcorn or candy corn, for that matter. What many people don’t know, including the author of “Corn belongs on the cob not in your gas tank” (Sun Journal columnist V. Paul Reynolds, March 15), is that ethanol is produced from No. 2 yellow corn […]
Time stands still in an Auburn cornfield
I can look from our living room window and see a fine field of corn, nearly ready for the harvesting vehicles to cut it and transport it to the neighbor’s farm, where it will feed dairy cattle in the winter. The view is pretty close to what I saw about 60 years ago from that […]
Auburn student engineers target Iowa pest for high-tech contest
AUBURN — Iowa’s cornfields may be quite a distance to the west, but they are weighing heavily this summer on the minds of eight former and current Edward Little High School student engineers. “We’re using an actual Iowa farm as our example, but we are not working there,” said EL Senior Christopher Lenardis. “We’ve never […]
Late winter may mean late crops from Maine farmers
FARMINGTON — Maine’s late winter likely will mean locally grown crops will be available later than usual at farmers markets. Many farmers, like David Pike in Farmington, are still planting crops, while others like Annette Marin in Rumford haven’t even started yet. The ground’s been too cold. “We usually try to get the first corn […]