Eagle USDA has set the maximum price elections for spring-planted crops for the 2000 harvest. The elections represent the top prices that producers can choose for insurance of crops under Multiple Peril Crop Insurance Policies and are the same throughout the country. Price elections for some crops and for special policies may vary from state to state.
Prices are for corn, soybeans, milo and corn silage.
The groups also say there is no need for the FDA to require special labels on GMO food items. This clearly indicates the need for improved and expanded communication. Grain giant Cargill Inc. is calming some concerns over genetically modified crops with word that it will accept those crops at its elevators this year. Groups opposed to biotechnology had made it appear that the market for the U.S. crops was collapsing because of this country's lead in adopting seeds with so-called genetically modified organisms, Dahlman said. But Cargill's move last month appeared to ease the fear.