Seeding rates that are too high can waste input dollars and stress plants under dry or nutrient-limited conditions. Rates ...

The unpredictability of the weather from one year to the next might be the only thing you can predict in crop production. At times, you pray for rain, and at others, you hope it will stop. Excessive ...

It's a common belief that insecticide use has been decreasing because of agricultural advances, but the widespread use of ...

In recent years, there have been tremendous improvements in the development of super sweet corn varieties that can germinate well in cold soil. You enter the corn field and start walking down a row.

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments on the approval of a corn variety genetically engineered to resist western corn rootworm and glufosinate-ammonium herbicides. The ...

CNW/ - Maizex Seeds, the seed division of Sollio Agriculture, announces the groundbreaking of a major $8.8 million investment in a new seed corn processing and packaging plant at their Blenheim, ...

University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences The analysis drew from confidential industry data on 67 variables relating to crop genetics, management, weather, ...

AMES, Iowa -- It’s hard to beat fresh sweet corn in the summer. Or is it? Two Iowa State University faculty are part of a major federal research project aimed at boosting sweet corn quality, using the ...