Seeding rates that are too high can waste input dollars and stress plants under dry or nutrient-limited conditions. Rates ...

Selecting corn genetics isn’t a decision to take lightly. Managing nitrogen with the same care helps protect yield potential ...

At the same time downstream seed treatments have helped build new product and service portfolios for ag retailers, there’s another growing opportunity. The list of products to be applied in the seed ...

CNW/ - Maizex Seeds, the seed division of Sollio Agriculture, announces the groundbreaking of a major $8.8 million investment in a new seed corn processing and packaging plant at their Blenheim, ...

Even if the seed has to be delivered early, the savings from one season alone could justify investing in a rodent-proof shipping container for seed storage, said Miner Institute forage agronomist ...

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments on the approval of a corn variety genetically engineered to resist western corn rootworm and glufosinate-ammonium herbicides. The ...

Even after a string of acquisitions, Dow AgroSciences is a bit player in the seed business. But the new genetically modified corn it developed with St. Louis-based giant Monsanto Co. finally provides ...

Corn planting is swinging into high gear in the upper Midwest, and some farmers are finding it a challenge to get enough of the seed they want. “It’s short, particularly (biotech) corn,” Neal Foster, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common seed treatments produced no improvement in crop ...

A fungus that can colonize, or grow within, corn plants doesn't just leave the plant unharmed—it also can help the plant stave off harmful bugs and other fungi, according to a new study by Penn State ...

Bags of corn seed that mix genetically modified hybrids with and without Bt toxins that kill insects provide farmers easier compliance with federal regulations but could, over time, hasten insect ...

Corn on the cob is one of life's biggest treats, but there's rarely a surprise when you peel the husk. That's not the case with Glass Gem corn. Peeling the husk from this variety of corn is like ...