November 06, 2026



A $15 million investment in the National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will expand the facility and provide opportunities for new bio-products using corn to scale to commercialization.



Over 100 years ago, Henry A. Wallace’s interest in science and agriculture led to experimenting with hybridization to develop a corn variety with higher yield.


With harvest rolling along, revealing the good, the bad and the ugly, it’s an ideal time to evaluate weed pressure and plan for 2027.