In summer, I love seeing the big piles of corn at the grocery or farmers market. I admit I never know whether to try to get yellow or white corn. I’ve heard that yellow corn is more tender, but is ...

In many areas of the Corn Belt, the crop quality ratings are above average and better. But not everyone is experiencing that type of crop quality this season, especially those growers dealing with ...

In this week’s Boots In The Field podcast, 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 ...

The waxed gray cardboard box, about 2.5 feet long, 18 inches wide and a foot deep, was delivered to our “Organic Gardening” magazine office one day in July, 1976 — the United States Bicentennial. I ...

Lee Tesdell stands in a prairie strip on his farm near Slater, Iowa. He grows alfalfa and Kernza, a perennial grain, raises sheep and cash rents to a neighbor who grows corn and soybeans. Over the ...

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything ...

Many would agree that few scenes in Fairfield County speak summer as the seas of green presented by fields of growing corn. In fact, nearly 60,000 acres of land in our county are dedicated in any ...