The king of the crop world might lose ground in 2017. Weak prices combined with more appealing profits on alternative crops means corn acres could be down next year. “In August, we put out projections ...

Annual Broom Corn Festival in downtown Arcola, featuring a parade, Saturday, September 9, 2017. Annual Broom Corn Festival in downtown Arcola, featuring a parade, Saturday, September 9, 2017. Annual ...

South Africa, the continent’s biggest producer of corn, increased its forecast of this year’s record crop after farmers improved their yields. Growers will probably reap 15.97 million metric tons of ...

USDA’s May 10, 2017, World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) provided the third round of corn and soybean balance sheet estimates for the 2017/18 marketing year. The first two balance ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - The 2017 edition of Purdue Extension’s Corn and Soybean Field Guide is now available through Extension’s The Education Store. This year, the corn and soybean production sections ...

As fall arrives, Delmarva farmers are busy harvesting this year's crop of corn and soybeans — the feed grains essential to sustain the region's poultry and dairy operations. The corn harvest has ...

Corn is grown not only for food, it is also an important renewable energy source. Renewable biofuels can come with hidden economic and environmental issues, and the question of whether corn is better ...

Corn has a storied and prominent place in human history. Early farmers first domesticated it 10,000 years ago in what is now Mexico. People began planting and breeding teosinte – the ancestor of ...

It's that time of the year again when "The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, An' it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky." (Thanks to Rodgers and Hammerstein.) That does make for a ...

Agriculture will always be one of the most important parts of the U.S. economy, which should make corn stocks a potential opportunity for long-term investors. Long-term investors looking for stable, ...

Do people think their hands are going to fall off when they touch an ear of corn? Because that is the only explanation for the staggering number of products designed to help us eat it. You can butter ...

Super Bowl 51 is almost here. If your party game plan includes chili, you'll want great homemade corn bread to go along with it. Yes, homemade! That stuff that comes out of a box is loaded with sugar ...