Great outcome and was glad to read that all that corn did not go to waste. But with so much excess supply I have to wonder why the price of sweet corn in the stores was higher than normal this year? Most of the time my local supermarket had it at 50 cents an ear, and I remember only one week that it was 25 cents - IF you had the coupon. I realize that the price of all food is up compared to past years, but maybe there wouldn't have been so much extra corn right in our own backyard if the pricing was more attractive.

Kudos all around. Thank you for caring and acting.

Excellent outcome. Congrat's to all who cared enough to make it happen!!

Great way to keep sweetcord prices high at the supermarkets while handing it out to those that claim not to have enough to pay taxes!

Sure feed the poorest. People that excess Genetically engineered corn that people who know what it does wont eat. When we win labeling food that is GMO and GE they wont eat it either.

Wow look at all the ethanol it could have made, It could have reduced my 4 dollar a gallon gasoline to somewhere around 399.99999 Thank's Cargill

The headline is not real accurate, ears of sweet corn are not meals. Corn is a side dish.

I am an ex-cargill employee and I am always proud to tell people I worked there. While I was there, I often worked on the United Way committee to generate donatiions. Cargill is a very caring and generous company.

Look, this is a very positive story. This part of Minnesota, by random chance, got plenty of rain in a year when a huge proportion of the us acreage was under a level of drought that we have not seen for decades. Sweet corn for processing or for fresh market is a tiny fraction of what is grown in the Midwest, but it would be wasteful and sad to see an excess supply go to waste. Will sweet corn feed the world or even the poor of the US? No. Can it be a source of enjoyable meals for people who might not otherwise get that? Yes. Again, this is a very positive scenario and should just be appreciated as such

Anyone see certified organic labels on corn this year or any other year? Anyone know what Genetically Engineered means? How about GMO. Guinea pigs for monsanto if you dont know