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MOLINE, Ill. — The corn crop is now firmly in the ground for many area fields and in some cases, already beginning to poke above the ground! During a recent Ask Andrew LIVE, Gary from Clinton ...
Nearly 6 million viewers watched as Kevin Costner, the film’s star, led players onto the field from the corn—a moment that was as cinematic as it was competitive. The spectacle was more than a ...
And yet roughly 12 million hectares of US farmland—an area the size of New York State—is currently devoted to corn crops that are farmed not for food, but for fuel. In a new PNAS study, researchers ...
Vast fields feed cutting-edge self-driving combines equipped with multi-row headers that sever stalks and thresh kernels in one swift pass. Conveyors transport golden harvest to towering dryers ...
corn root and corn exudates, that remains in the field following harvest. This material, known as nonharvested carbon, is decomposed by organisms in the soil and converted into humus—dark ...
¹ The economic impact of corn affects folks who will never even set foot in a corn field. As corn growers, your industry is something to celebrate, so we’ve compiled some facts and figures on ...
NAPERVILLE, Illinois, April 13 (Reuters) - After building immensely bullish bets, speculators in late February rode out Chicago corn’s worst downturn in over a year as the United States prepared ...
Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie digs deeper into how farmers can be successful this season going to corn-on-corn. He had addressed some initial questions on the topic a couple of weeks ago.
the crop’s most damaging pest in the Corn Belt, is reducing both the technology’s effectiveness and some farmers’ profits, according to a new study of 12 years of field trials across 10 corn-growing ...
Since then, farmers have extensively used "Bt corn" hybrids. Subsequently, multiple field studies have reported Bt resistance in rootworms since 2009, raising doubts about the long-term viability ...
CHICAGO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Farmers in the U.S. plan to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring than they did last year, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from U.S. President ...