Candace Krebs
The Ag Journal
Input prices are likely to remain high for at least the next eight months, and a recent stretch of cool, wet weather is expected to fade as summer begins, according to two experts featured on a recent corn production webinar.
The webinar was sponsored by the Colorado Corn Administrative Committee and moderated by executive director Nick Colglazier.
Nearly every aspect of crop inputs from the active ingredients used to make weed control products to the containers to put them in are in short supply, according to Fred Raish, a fifth generation Coloradan and regional supply coordinator for CHS, one of the nation’s largest farmer-owned cooperatives.
Colorado Corn - Look for the Blue Hose
Thursday Feb 11th, 2021
Colorado Corn Administrative Committee is seeing success with an initiative started last fall aimed at increasing E15 sales in the Colorado Springs area.
Colorado Corn Administrative Committee Executive Director Nick Colglazier says they’re asking consumers to “look for the blue hose.”
Colglazier: “The whole goal is to educate consumers about the benefits of E15 and increase the number of gallons of E15 that are sold. And we’re really promoting the message that it’s a win, win, win. It’s a win for your car because it burns better and it’s better for your engine. It’s a win for the environment because it burns cleaner and it reduces tailpipe emissions in terms of toxic emissions as well as greenhouse gas emissions. And it’s also a win for your wallet and the local economy because it s made from corn that comes from rural Colorado and E15 is usually cheaper by a couple of cents than the other unlead