Corn ( Zea mays) is an easy plant to seed in the ground and thin out later as the seedlings emerge. "Corn shows signs of ...

Oats were once a major Minnesota crop, with about 4 million acres planted annually on average until the early 1960s. But in 2025, oats accounted for only 195,000 planted acres in Minnesota, and those ...

Venkatesan Sundaresan, a Distinguished Professor of plant biology and plant sciences at the University of California, Davis, ...

If you’re a regular online shopper, you may come home today to an Amazon package (or two, or five) waiting on your front ...

Michigan State study shows corn planting success depends on soil conditions and weather forecasts, not just calendar timing.

Pro Farmer economist Lane Akre says at the current corn to soybean price ratio and with market conditions, soybeans need to buy some additional acres.

The National Academy of Sciences has awarded James Schnable, a plant geneticist at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, one of ...

Short corn could be the future of commercial corn. Learn from experts and farmers about its benefits. It’s hard to imagine ...

It’s time to put up your new gardening calendar and give yourself reminders of some of the jobs you’ll need to do through the seasons. Follow this month-by-month bullet point guide to some of the ...

Here's how I made a rustic wholemeal polenta from homegrown corn that was left to dry on the plant. This is a great way to ...

Two notorious agricultural pests — the cotton bollworm and the corn earworm — have successfully interbred in Brazil, ...

According to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction Strategy, an initiative aimed at reducing nitrogen and phosphorus runoff into Iowa’s ...