Why do American farmers need $13.8 billion in federal payments after a record corn harvest? The answer reveals a troubling paradox in farm economics. The post American farmers grew more corn than ever ...

Study charts path for low-emission corn farming across the globe by Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences edited by Gaby Clark, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes The GIST ...

USDA on Friday revised its corn estimates for September, citing a processing error involving acreage weights that affected ...

Ontario farmer Blake Vince popularized burying cotton underwear to gauge soil activity. More decay may signal active microbes ...

President Donald Trump announced on Monday night that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will create the Harvest Fuel Relief ...

With already thin profit margins and increasingly uncertain farm labor and other input costs, precision agriculture technology could improve New England's small and medium-sized farms' efficiency, ...

As a teenager in a small Iowa town in the 1980s, I would join dozens of kids around this time of summer on crews at a Cargill research plot where we helped scientists control pollination of corn ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week was the Fourth of July. And as the saying goes, Indiana's corn crop should be "knee high." But the old ag adage is a ...

In the U.S., corn is ubiquitous. It’s the most-grown crop in the country. Corn products line several grocery aisles: on the cob or kernels in a can, popcorn, chips, cereals, bread mixes for baking — ...