US farmers are boosting corn planting to a five-year high as the looming trade war makes America’s mostly widely grown crop a ...

Prospective Plantings report estimates U.S. farmers will plant: 95.3 million acres of corn in 2025, 83.5 million acres of ...

Offering farmers more seed choices also would help reduce Bt overuse, researchers said. Bt traits targeting insect pests such ...

Surrounded by 3.2 million other corn plants in a 100-acre field ... will allow growers to do more with their data, integrate new data and make better on-farm management and crop production ...

To protect thousands of varieties of Mexico's prized heirloom corn, leaders vote to amend the constitution to ban the ...

On average, these little particles could reduce photosynthesis in plants and algae by up to 12 percent, according to the paper ...

Last year’s growing season brought to Kansas a new disease to corn. Corn stunt spiroplasma and its associated vector the corn ...

Compact plants can be planted closer together, adding up to more ears per acre. But compact corn didn't happen by accident; years of hybrid breeding did that. Now, two new genome-based studies are ...

In the brave new world of genetic engineering ... Corn borer caterpillars bite into the leaves, stems, or kernels of a Bt corn plant, the toxin attacks their digestive tracts, and they die ...