The National Corn Growers Association is launching its fourth iteration of the Consider Corn Challenge to find game-changing new uses for field corn.

The Consider Corn Challenge III is seeking proposals for new uses of field corn as an industrial feedstock, with a chance to win up to $150,000.

Consider Corn winners received $50,000 each to go to their unique technology to improve a product using field corn to produce biobased materials.

The goal of the second global competition, Consider Corn Challenge, is to find new and innovative uses of the untapped potential of field corn.

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA), along with innovation facilitator NineSigma, have launched the global competition ‘Consider Corn Challenge’ to untap corn’s full potential.  The competition is looking for next big innovative uses for field corn as a renewable feedstock for making sustainable chemicals with significant market demand. “Corn has a history of being an […]