Illinois had a clean sweep of the Top 10 list of the nation s best county soybean yields while non-Illinois counties had only three spots in the Top 20. On the opposite end of the spectrum, drought-stricken states in the Southern Plains had the nation s worst soybean yields.
The CEO of Minnesota-based Epitome Energy LLC has announced plans to move a 42-million-bushel soybean crush plant project from Minnesota to North Dakota, citing problems with Minnesota s permitting process.
Global Processing Inc., based in Kanawha, Iowa, filed for bankruptcy on Monday in the U.S. District Court for Northern Iowa. The filing comes weeks after the company had its grain licenses suspended in Iowa and surrendered its grain dealer license in Nebraska.