Is there any vegetable that screams Ohio summer more than sweet corn eaten on the cob? Some gardeners might argue that the tomato is the more popular vegetable grown in Ohio, and it is the state fruit ...
Painted Mountain is a colorful open pollinated corn that matures quickly. It can be eaten fresh off the cob or left to mature ...
As farmers look to establish their 2023 cropping plan, some are looking at changing their rotation. Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, says he has been fielding questions on the subject. “For ...
Sweet corn harvested fresh from the home garden and cooked soon afterward is one of life’s great treats. If you have never had that experience, now is the time to plant sweet corn in the garden. Sweet ...
The midwestern Corn Belt — which roughly covers parts of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Kansas — will be “unsuitable” for cultivating corn by 2100 if climate change continues on its ...
Time moves on and in every walk of life changes take place. And so it has been in agriculture. Farming practices that were thought vital for survival have gone by the wayside. Equipment that might ...
A few years ago, I ran a series of articles on understanding agriculture, designed for anyone in the general public who had an interest in understanding more about various agricultural crops and ...
Let's talk corn. It's big business in America. In fact, when it comes to production, corn is the biggest crop in the United States, outpacing soybeans by 10 billion bushels annually, according to ...
Corn, maíz in Spanish, is deeply rooted in the culture of Costa Rica and Latin America. Indigenous people were the first to begin cultivating small, grass-like varieties of corn at the dawn of their ...