Preceon Short-Stature Corn from Bayer allows growers to produce more with less but does so while significantly cutting ...

Corn was domesticated from its ancestor teosinte in central Mexico beginning about 9,000 years ago by humans selectively breeding the wild plant, transforming its small, hard-shelled kernels into the ...

Last fall, a number of farmers in central Illinois told Ken Ferrie they were thinking about shifting acres to corn on corn for 2025, because the crop penciled out better than soybeans. Back then, only ...

The 2021 crop year has been quite variable. A dry winter/spring followed by periods of excess rain and dry hot weather has caused considerable plant stress. Corn plants typically give us many ...

Seed corns are small corns that can appear on the soles of your feet. They can sometimes be difficult to tell apart from other foot lesions, such as calluses and plantar warts. Continue reading to ...

Corn rootworm is rearing its tiny head in abundance in a growing number of corn fields in the Corn Belt, according to experts in the field. University of Minnesota Extension corn entomologist Fei Yang ...

A new study uses novel single-cell profiling techniques to reveal how plants add new cell layers that help them resist climate stressors like drought or flooding. The research focuses on corn -- a ...

While corn is a grass with a fibrous-type root system, some companies are digging deeper to learn more about roots. Generally speaking, those companies classify roots into three types: Fibrous: A mop ...

Early in the season a plant begins to "take root" in the soil, but that growth can continue to considerable depth There is no simple definition of the “right way to farm” because any answer would have ...

This figure from the paper shows the evolution of root types from teosinte to modern corn over the last 10 000 years, simulated using the modeling program OpenSimRoot, which was developed by ...