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 ...

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 ...

In the film, Kevin Costner plays a struggling Iowa farmer who plows over his corn to build a baseball field for the ghosts of Joe Jackson and other members of the banished 1919 Chicago White Sox ...

Not all corn is created equal. The yummy corn-on-the-cob that graces our summer barbecues, isn’t the same as that mysterious corn that stays in fields and dries up well after summer is over. There are ...

So, that begs the question, can these fields actually increase the moisture in the air for the surrounding area? Let's dig in! Is it more humid when you have a 40-acre corn field by your backyard ...

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 ...