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The burger or bacon you put on your plate is likely at its most expensive since the 1980s, and it's only going to get pricier. The surging price of corn futures - which allow farmers to lock in the price of the grain for an extended period - means few farmers are expanding their herds, Bloomberg...

The corn refining industry is seeking to make one of the most common ingredients in American food sound a little more palatable to health-conscious consumers and food companies. The Corn Refiners Associations filed a petition on Tuesday with the Food and Drug Administration to change the name of...

Soda and processed-food makers insist that all sugars are the same. Yet with studies linking fructose to obesity, diabetes and, most recently, pancreatic cancer, big brands are quietly backing away from using corn-based high-fructose sweetener. Could it eventually become another tobacco-like liability?

Record heat in Russia is hurting its wheat crop, sending the grain's price soaring -- potentially affecting future bread and pasta costs. But it doesn't end there. For separate reasons, coffee and cocoa prices are also up. Get ready to pay more for food.

A severe food shortage is on its way, according to famed investor Jim Rogers. Food inventories are the lowest in decades and "[m]any farmers cannot get loans to buy fertilizer now, even though we have big shortages developing," he said.

No wonder stock market cheerleaders don't want us to look at 2009's Dow 10K in terms of purchasing power: The results are sobering. For example, 1999's Dow 10K bought 8,300 gallons of gasoline, but 2009's version buys just 4,000.

UPDATE after the jump. A new study by the University of California indicates that high fructose corn syrup could be just as unhealthy as some nutrition experts have thought. In short, the first tests conducted on humans showed that subjects who were fed a diet high in fructose accumulated fat...

Driving through the corn forest of western Ohio, I am often struck by how our farmers continue to thrive despite years of undependable weather and erratic markets. In light of the grain price spike of 2008 and the "ethanol vs. food" controversy, I wondered how such farmers viewed their market and...

This is just one of the Innovative Ways to Stimulate the Economy suggested by DailyFinance contributors. See them all. A local farmer and friend, Chrissie Zaerpoor, is known as one of the new farming celebrities. She raises truly free-range chickens for meat and eggs, and grass-fed dairy cows, and...

Years ago, a teacher forced me to read Fernand Braudel's three volume history of the world. While most of the information contained in Braudel's amazing opus has, thankfully, managed to leak out of my brain, I still remember that he was a huge fan of the potato. In the 40+ plus pages that he spent...