“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 ...

the crop's most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology's effectiveness and some farmers' profits. The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed ...

Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

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 ...

Corn leafhoppers, invasive herbivorous insects, are capable of spreading the pathogenic corn stunt disease. David Kerns, an extension entomologist with Texas A&M AgriLife, reported in an April 1 ...

One to three winners will be selected for the Consider Corn Challenge V, with a total prize pool of $300,000, split equally ...

The physical structure of corn plants — including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches — makes a big difference for yield. Two new genome ...

the crop’s most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology’s effectiveness and some farmers’ profits, according to a new study of 12 years of field trials across 10 corn-growing ...

The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed usage data across 10 Midwestern corn-growing states, including Iowa. The study, published in Science, shows rootworms are ...