Wheat growers in Nebraska often wonder if hybrid wheat could lead to increased yield and new beneficial traits like those ...

Ninety-two years ago, the American Goldfinch became Iowa’s state bird. Today, Iowans are calling for a state horse, fish and ...

Over the past 15 years, many farms have moved away from early pre-plant nitrogen application for corn to increasing acres sidedressed with nitrogen from emergence to V-4 growth stage.

T he physical structure of corn plants—including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches—makes a big difference for yield. Compact plants can ...

Creativity flows through artist Julia Marden’s veins, and has done so since childhood. Her creations are a direct tie to her ...

There is nothing more attractive to the corn earworm than tasseling and silking sweet corn. An adult female can lay between 500 and 3,000 eggs singly instead of in egg masses like the fall armyworm or ...

Their study, “Regulatory variation controlling architectural pleiotropy” recently published in the journal, Nature Communications, sheds new light on how genes governing leaf angle and tassel ...

Telenko digs into multiple corn diseases, and while the first sign ... that we go with gray leaf spot at that VT stage, that early tassel to silking. That timing can provide some good yield ...

Early in the morning, men carefully groom their horses, braid their manes and tails, and adorn them with colorful beads, tassels ... offering of boiled corn and bread, which is presented to ...

The physical structure of corn plants - including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches - makes a big difference for yield. Compact plants can be ...