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• "We're on the fringes here. But it's coming," said John Woodbury, location manager in Ross, N.D., for Dakota Quality Grain Cooperative.
• Officials in Minnesota and South Dakota also say interest in corn is growing in areas where traditionally the crop hasn't been grown.
• Ethanol has contributed mightily to corn's increasing popularity with farmers. Nearly 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop this year is projected to be used for ethanol and a byproduct, dried distiller's grains, which is fed to livestock.
• Some area farmers, particularly older ones who remember long stretches of dry weather, question what will happen to corn acres if the area turns dry again. Schott said new drought-resistant corn varieties address that concern.
• Schott, who planted his first corn crop in 1977, said the long-term outlook for corn is bright and that the Upper Midwest will continue to play an increasingly impor
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