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“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
On Sunday, the account shared a clip of Tariq driving through corn fields on his way to the South Dakota-based palace. "My babies!" he quipped. Several celebrities, including Martha Stewart and ...
A southwest Nebraska farmer says he’s waiting for warmer weather before spring planting begins. Andy Jobman raises corn and ...
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 ...
Farmers are putting final touches on planting preparation. “If the dirt says we can go, let's go. Don't be scared to start ...
One to three winners will be selected for the Consider Corn Challenge V, with a total prize pool of $300,000, split equally ...
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 ...