Corn is becoming more profitable in a long-term agricultural research project at Michigan State University. MSU Extension’s ...

Soil conditions, temperatures and weather outlook are finally aligned for planting in much of the Midwest. In the hurry to ...

Farmers can make a poor planting scenario better by teaching their planter how to dance across fields. The practice is ...

Plant corn with companion plants, also known as intercropping to grow a bountiful edible garden. Companion planting can ...

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Now we know which economy is the gravest threat to the US after China: Lesotho. China currently has a combined tariff of 54 per cent under Donald Trump’s new plan. But Lesotho apparently deserve ...

The US government has stepped up pressure on Kenya to level the playing field for its maize exports ... a 50 percent tariff on imports of US corn and imposes burdensome regulatory requirements ...

Some are still standing. They’re in cow pastures, corn fields. As a child, you knew they were there. They’d show up in someone’s corn field. But oddly enough, I think influential on me was the ...

Spring brings the pale green of new wheat and the pink-white blossoms of apple orchards. Summer offers the deep green of corn fields and the golden waves of ripening grain. Fall transforms the ...

The physical structure of corn plants — including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches — makes a big difference for yield. Two new genome ...

Rotating cereal rye and winter wheat into fields of corn and soy reduces fertilizer loss by 50% in Illinois, without impacting overall yields. These results come from a new study that brings us closer ...

U.S. farmers are expected to plant 95.3 million acres of corn this year while paring back soybean and wheat acreage. Corn acreage is expected to grow 5%, while soybeans will fall 4% to 83.5 million, ...