At first glance, it looks like a wart—but upon closer inspection, a glassy, hard core in the center becomes noticeable: a typical sign of a corn. This small, often painful callus forms where the skin ...

Corn yield loss can start even before seedlings emerge from the ground. New research into how plants interact with one another at their earliest stages of development has implications for weed control ...

As corn planting looms, the dread of disease pressures may be occupying producers’ thoughts. Some of the pesky problems in these parts are relatively new to the headache list, including Tar Spot, ...

Factors that may cause corn to leaf out underground. Several factors can cause the coleoptile to split prematurely, allowing the leaves to emerge underground. Usually, more than one of the following ...

Total seed protein in modern hybrid and inbred varieties of corn is three times lower than that of its wild ancestor, teosinte. The reasons were unknown, until now. A gene on chromosome nine called ...

As Ken Ferrie traveled through Minnesota and into northern Iowa this past week, he saw a number of fields with rootless corn syndrome, sometimes referred to as floppy corn syndrome. “These are fields ...