The USDA projects South Dakota farmers will plant 6.2 million acres of corn and 5.1 million acres of soybeans.

Only a small portion of Nebraska’s corn ends up at the grocery store, and then often in an indirect way. So, if the ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield. The first step to more ears per field is stand and ear counts. Determine the causes of gaps, late-emerging plants and missing ears so you know how ...

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 ...

A southwest Nebraska farmer says his corn and soybean crops are beating his expectations. Andy Jobman tells Brownfield he ...

He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans ... for different seed mixes. “What’s native to Illinois is going to ...

A record-setting heat blast that swept across the Midwest this week has been made worse by the region's vast fields of cornstalks. Through a natural process commonly called "corn sweat," water ...