Corn Commentary

Show-Me Growers Show MO Passion

When it comes to the food and fuel debate, our state corn associations are going far in stirring up the troops and demonstrating how enraging it can be to be maligned unfairly by those who don’t want to bother listening to our side of things.

Mike Geske, president of the Missouri Corn Growers Association, summed this up well in a column this week in Corn and Soybean Digest:

We have fully proved our case. Yet the misinformation, misrepresentation, and urban myths keep getting repeated over and over and over. At what point does the media become embarrassed at repeating the same, already proven wrong mantra. Much of the media seem to relish promoting the best voodoo research that the oil companies, OPEC, and Hugo Chavez are able to buy.

You can read the whole thing here.