Plant corn in a location that receives full sun and ... and remove the cover after three or four weeks. European corn borers feed on silks and ears, and there are two generations each year.

In the rare instance that an insect that feeds on the Bt crop survives after feeding on Bt corn, the only insects ... What kind of refuge should you plant? Again, look to your seed bag to make ...

Speaking on a recent Beef Cattle Institute Cattle Chat podcast, Lancaster addressed a question about feeding cracked corn to steers being raised to the finished stage on the home operation.

On the other hand, not feeding your corn plants enough water can also cause your plant to slowly wither away. 'Underwatering can cause the leaves to dry out and turn brown,' he says. 'So It’s ...

Monarch caterpillars don't feed on corn pollen, but they do feed on the leaves of milkweed plants, which often grow in and around cornfields. Entomologists at Cornell University showed that in the ...

Corn requires half-inch long fresh silks at the tips of ears in order to pollinate. When pests clip silks shorter than that, pollination won’t happen. “When pollen drops, you need the silks to ...

The fast-food chain is scaling the use of Syngenta’s Enogen corn as animal feed in the US, a move that aims to lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per pound of meat produced. McDonald’s is ...

It would mean farmers would not have to dry their corn as much, or at all, when it nears maturity, saving drying costs and time during harvest. The biofermentation plant would produce feed ...