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 ...

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 ...

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 other kinds of corn, but this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...