Article: Northwest Ohio Farmers Increase Popcorn Planting, Despite Static Consumption.

By Jane Schmucker, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 24--Popcorn consumption trends in the United States have grown stale, but the crop is popping for northwest Ohio farmers.

ConAgra Foods, Inc., which operates what is thought to be the world's largest microwave popcorn plant in Marion County, increased its popcorn contracts by 5 percent this year compared to last year, said Alan Harris, manager of the ConAgra Snack Foods plant.

He wouldn't say how many acres ConAgra has under contract, but Daryl Deering, president of Schlessman Seed Co., which raises popcorn seed north of Milan in Erie County, estimated ...

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