One acre of corn can produce oxygen for 130 people a year—but cloudy days cut that output in half. Here’s how sunlight powers ...

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Soil crusting is a concern for farmers in north Iowa who planted corn ahead of Easter weekend. Josh Hitzhusen of rural ...

The National Academy of Sciences has canceled a workshop on preventing human bird flu infections after being told to stop ...

Most gasoline sold across the U.S. is blended with 10% ethanol, but 15% blends are becoming increasingly common, particularly in the Midwest, where most of the nation’s corn is grown.

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 ...

Ammonium nitrate, an artificial fertilizer, provided a huge boost to the corn crop by replacing the nitrogen in the soil. The same field could be planted in corn without crop rotation. Secondly ...

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But if his fields remain waterlogged into May, Lester fears he will have to shift acres earmarked for corn to soybeans despite demand concerns stemming from Trump's tariffs on China. "I'm ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, April 24 (Reuters) - Back for their eighth edition, the U.S. Crop Watch producers are off to their quickest-ever start on planting their corn and soybean fields. However ...

I raise soybeans and corn on my farm in Iowa ... And it’s not just big, huge fields like we’re used to here. It was a very, very small parcels put together. So that’s how they got to ...

Below, rows of long, narrow fields extended from Culebra Creek toward a man-made ... Peña and others are reviving traditional farming practices and crops such as heirloom corn, beans, and squash. The ...