New joint venture between Cargill and HELM will create more demand for Iowa-grown corn. 

Corn grown in the soils of southeast Iowa will soon be a component in products ranging from spandex and sneakers to car seats and cell phone cases through a new joint venture between Cargill and HELM AG called Qore. 

Located on Cargill’s 2,000-acre corn processing campus just outside of Eddyville, Qore is the world’s first large-scale facility to process corn into a renewable...