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 ...

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The NOAA’s spring outlook has dryness in the forecast across the western Corn Belt and southern U.S. plains at an important time of the year ... She says there is a greater chance for another dry ...

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A farmer in south central South Dakota says widespread dryness has been good for spring fieldwork, but not good for winter ...

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The nation’s inventories are projected to hit a two-year low before the next harvest, while world corn stocks are set to reach their lowest level in a decade, according to the U.S. Department of ...

Corn is often harvested at grain moisture contents higher than the 15% moisture typically desired by grain buyers. Wetter grain obviously weighs more than drier grain and so grain buyers will “shrink” ...

Waterhemp, Palmer amaranth, and other pesky weeds are all perennial pains in the neck for farmers. Will Griffin, row crop ...

A new disease is plaguing cornfields across the Midwest. Phyllachora maydis is the fungus that causes a corn disease called ...