A century of breeding corn to boost yields in the US Midwest may have also made the crop more vulnerable to the hotter temperatures expected with climate change. “It’s fairly severe,” says ...

Breeding advances brought an era of advanced disease control. The future of disease tolerance will use advanced breeding with targeted approaches that help maximize corn and soybean yield potential.

Stine has been breeding shorter varieties of corn for years. They classify short corn as having a height of 90 inches or less. Some of the company’s hybrids now top out at just five feet tall.

In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new breed of corn that reduces nitrogen loss. Connor Sible, research assistant professor in ACES, discussed his team’s ...

The USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is investing in University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that could expedite the development of climate-resilient corn.  ...

Stine has been breeding shorter varieties of corn for years. They classify short corn as having a height of 90 inches or less. Some of the company’s hybrids now top out at just five feet tall.

A suburban Chicago farm's highly anticipated annual theme of its "world's largest corn maze" has officially been revealed for the 2024 season.

The three-year, $720,000 project adds greater detail to the process of genomic selection now standard in plant breeding, which uses computer models to predict plant performance based on genetic ...