URBANA, Ill. — A nine-year study comparing a typical two-year corn and soybean rotation with a more intensive three-year ...

“Trying to pick this corn up will only lower their insurance check and destroy their combines and drive up drying costs,” says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. “Grain quality will ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield. The first step to more ears per field is stand and ear counts. Determine the causes of gaps, late-emerging plants and missing ears so you know how ...

Corn and wheat prices are tumbling after China slapped retaliatory tariffs on some American-made goods, pushing farmers into ...

An analysis of data covering 12 years and 10 U.S. Corn Belt states reveals that farmers suffer economic loss from the overuse ...

The first is the baseline scenario, with corn grown over the whole area. The second features a traditional solar system installed on 25% of the area, replacing the corn crop. The other three ...

sweet corn makes up less than 1% of the total crop. The rest is starchy and dry field corn, which is mostly used to feed cows. Indigenous peoples originally cultivated corn's wild ancestor ...

But what makes sweet corn taste so, well, sweet compared to its sturdy cousin, field corn? The answer comes down to one crucial difference that's been delighting taste buds for generations ...

It is amazing what a few days of warm weather can bring into southeastern Idaho, by softening the snow and exposing grains, ...

These diseases are insidious, and often growers are unaware of their effects until harvest. Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly every corn field in Delaware, and severity and incidence varies from ...