CHICAGO — Conagra is opening a new vegetable processing plant in Waseca, Minnesota, to process corn and peas, replacing a more than 90-year-old facility. The $300 million facility, which processes ...

For many Americans, highly processed foods are on the menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Even when the raw materials -- grains, for example -- are high in vitamins and health-promoting phenolic ...

In the village back in Guatemala where she grew up, Lesly Lopez remembers grinding corn into masa was a daily activity. It’s the same in many villages across Central and South America. Masa is the ...

Of the more than 120 million metric tonnes of corn starch produced each year, nearly 15 percent is discarded or fed to chickens and other animals. Swedish researchers have consequently successfully ...

CHICAGO, June 8 (Reuters) - Cargill Inc said on Tuesday it will build a plant in Iowa to turn sugars from corn into replacements for chemicals that can be used to make spandex and biodegradable ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/lmx7c5/corn_starch) has announced the addition of the "Corn Starch ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. As the silos fill up, harvest corn is piled outside at the Archer Daniels Midland grain elevator Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in ...

Every day, the corn farmers of Bulul-Salo and Tacub traverse long, steep stretches of unpaved roads to tend to their fields. Farming is the main source of sustenance and livelihood for the residents ...