Hurricane Florence was targeting Campbell Coxe’s farm. Days earlier, the 2018 storm had rapidly intensified in the Atlantic, and now Darlington County, South Carolina, was in the path. Coxe had to ...

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 ...

Purple corn, commonly known as maiz morado, has more antioxidants than blueberries. Researchers at the University of Missouri are trying to grow a similar corn here in the United States. Missouri is ...

Elena Valeriote is a writer of stories about food, farming, culture, and travel that explore the connection between people and place. Her work has appeared in publications including Gastro Obscura, ...

At the same time downstream seed treatments have helped build new product and service portfolios for ag retailers, there’s another growing opportunity. The list of products to be applied in the seed ...

Common seed sins include falling in love with a variety or hybrid, squelching corn plant populations and not rotating SCN sources of resistance.

Corn planting populations. It’s a balancing act. The secret is knowing which factors impact corn populations - including seed variety, seed quality, weather and soil conditions — and how to ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. - Seed for two new drought-tolerant corn varieties will be in limited release this spring. They're targeted for farmers on the western edge of the U.S. Corn Belt. DuPont (Pioneer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Recent cool weather and rainy days may have prevented gardeners from planting sweet corn by the recommended start dates of early ...

GENESEO, Ill. — David Powell spent the last 13 July's walking through corn fields. He's one of about 18 people detasseling corn at a Geneseo research field for Wyffels Hybrids. His average of about 17 ...