The USDA says Illinois farmers made modest planting progress last week. Brian Corkill, who farms in Henry & Stark Counties, says he’s not started planting yet, but there’s been a lot of work done in ...

The corn we eat today and the corn we find at the local grocery store, looks radically different from the corn grown ...

Have you ever glimpsed emerald seas of cornfields pulsing beneath blazing sun and wondered how millions of golden kernels are ...

Answer: One ear of corn has 16 rows of kernels with about 38 kernels in a row, which is 608 kernels on an ear. Compare corn ...

A west-central Minnesota farmer wrapped up corn planting this week. Chad Willis of Wilmar says conditions kept improving ...

Soil conditions, temperatures and weather outlook are finally aligned for planting in much of the Midwest. In the hurry to ...

Rabbits might look like tiny vacuum cleaners with fur, but their stomachs are way more delicate than they let on. Some foods ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will cut tariffs on imports of corn from the United States, but volumes still need to be finalised, the finance minister said on Friday. The country is among those in ...

Ancient practices hold important lessons for farmers facing drying lands, but they were often more complex than modern ...

FabulousFabs/Flickr , CC BY-NC When ... When their modern-day fields are flooded or destroyed by these events, farmers will sometimes move their crops to areas surrounding archaeological remains where ...

Rotating cereal rye and winter wheat into fields of corn and soy reduces fertilizer loss by 50% in Illinois, without impacting overall yields. These results come from a new study that brings us closer ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...