Mike Pearson says farmers and the ag industry is always looking for new markets and new uses for the food, feed, fiber and fuel grown on farms across the country.
This has prompted the National Corn Growers Association to have the Consider Corn Challenge which is a competition designed to find new uses for field corn and grow new ideas.
There were four winners this year:
Blue Stem Biosciences, from Omaha, Nebraska, has created a chemical called 3HP. It can be used for paints, personal care products and coatings. It is created in a process similar to ethanol and the plan is to retrofit closed…
