Thirty minutes north of Omaha, outside Blair, Nebraska, the aroma of steaming corn—damp and sweet—falls upon my car like a heavy curtain. The farmland rolls on, and the source of the smell remains a ...

2005-07-23 04:00:00 PDT New York-- When Newman's Own Organics launched its Fresh Produce product line in January, the company chose plastic containers that not only held vegetables but also were made ...

BLAIR, Neb. (AP) -- If America wants to reduce its consumption of oil and the buildup of slow-degrading plastic in landfills, one answer is softly swaying in the wind on farms across the country. Some ...

MOLINE- Wednesday, July 11, Rock Island County Farm Bureau Manager DeAnne Bloomberg will show me how to make corn plastic during Good Morning Quad Cities. According Ag in the Classroom, Corn plastic ...

Corn plastic has been around for 20 years, but the polymer was too expensive for broad commercial applications until 1989, when Patrick Gruber, then a Cargill chemist looking for new ways to use corn, ...

1. Place a tablespoon of cornstarch in a plastic zipper-seal bag. 2. Add 2 drops of corn oil to the cornstarch. 3. Add 1 ½ tablespoons of water to the oil and cornstarch. Seal the bag. 4. Mix the ...