Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We've all heard the old sayings about corn. Here are a few facts - and myths - about corn. This summer has been a mixture of rainy ...

Let's talk corn. It's big business in America. In fact, when it comes to production, corn is the biggest crop in the United States, outpacing soybeans by 10 billion bushels annually, according to ...

The calendar used to play a significant role in David Hula’s decision on when he would head to the field and start planting corn. That’s not the case anymore. “I’m not so hung up on the date now as I ...

Uniform, rapid emergence is the foundation of high-yielding corn. Corn plants that emerge at different times compete unevenly for light, water and nutrients. Soil temperature, soil moisture, ...

If you're a new gardener and your corn is missing kernels when you harvest it, it's because the ears weren't fully pollinated. Thankfully, you can fix that on your next attempt to grow a crop. You ...

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything ...

AMES, Iowa – A researcher at Iowa State University is urging Iowa farmers to adopt a diverse range of pest management tactics to suppress the resistance of western corn rootworm to Bt corn, a widely ...

Flying over Ohio this time of year, green fields paint a lush picture. For one farmer, those fields were a blank canvas for something he was ready to create. “We’ve been doing the multi-hybrid ...