The National Corn Growers Association is relying on some friendly competition to crowd-source innovative ways to use corn products.
With the U.S. sitting on a field corn surplus of 1.8 billion bushels, the National Corn Growers Association is hosting a global open innovation challenge to explore new solutions for turning the crop into bio-sustainable chemicals and molecules.
“We want to target new innovations that offer added margin to our producers, and we felt that going into the bio-sustainable molecule, biochemical market represents that opportunity for producers,” NCGA Director of Market Development Jim Bauman said.
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