Separating otherwise safe, concurrent uses of chemicals is as wrong a strategy as the Maginot Line. Organic matter is chemical matter at its base. Chemophobes Win After being pilloried in the social media by activists, the Subway sandwich chain announced it would stop using azodicarbonamide as a bleaching and conditioning agent in its bread. The complaint was that the chemical is also used in making yoga mats. Actually, it is used in the manufacture of many plastics, but the sweaty yoga mat provides a graphic image to chemophobes. One could make this ever grosser: benzoic acid is used to fight fungus in food as well as athlete's foot in humans (food odor is caused by isovaleric acid, also found in foods). Additionally:
Sodium benzoate...
What You Need to Know Today: U.S. weather is getting more attention this week as conditions vary greatly across the western, central, and eastern corn belts, with the different regions battling dryness and too much rain simultaneously. The ProFarmer Crop Tour began today in Indiana and Nebrask...
Key Takeaways: Argentina is on pace for a record corn crop and record exports in the current marketing year, with abundant supplies likely to keep the country highly competitive in global export markets. Argentina’s record exportable surplus is allowing it to offer highly competitive pri...
