Floodlight reports that corn's heavy reliance on fertilizers for growth is driving greenhouse gas emissions, raising ...

Weather events and latent environmental stressors are making it increasingly difficult to produce good yields of corn every year. With these added pressures, scientists are working hard to develop new ...

Year after year, the same 15 million acres across Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are planted with corn. Each August, the fibrous green leaves in those fields reach eye level. And each ...

Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what's now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat and sorghum in Paw ...

Painted Mountain is a colorful open pollinated corn that matures quickly. It can be eaten fresh off the cob or left to mature ...

I hope everyone is growing something they can eat, but if you haven’t tried yet, consider doing what the Indians did centuries ago and grow the Three Sisters! Growing multiple plants together, called ...

The 2025 growing season is presenting challenges with precipitation levels significantly below both last year’s levels and the norm. This sustained dryness is impacting major corn- and soybean-growing ...

When I was young, I asked my father why he didn’t grow sweet corn in his garden. He answered that you need a big garden to ...