Join Mark from Self Sufficient Me as he experiments with growing heirloom Jolly Roger sweet corn in winter within a ...

From silking to grain fill, reproductive corn growth stages represent the development of the corn kernels that will ultimately make up your corn crop yield. Understanding how corn moves through final ...

Like most plants, corn growth progresses through three main phases: germination, vegetative, and reproductive stages. During germination, seeds break dormancy when soil temperatures exceed 50°F. They ...

You can’t construct a strong building on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a great corn crop on a weak root system. From freezing temperatures to voracious underground pests and other threats, ...

Warm temperatures tend to push corn off the starting line faster than a turbocharged race car. Going from zero to 60 isn't exactly a bad thing in the crop, but it increases the need to mitigate risk ...

Excessive rainfall and flooding threatened Indiana corn yield, stalk strength and grain quality throughout this fall harvest ...

When is the best time to apply nitrogen? What plant response was there to fertilizer or any number of other treatments? There ...

A brief period of heat and drought early in a corn plant's life can affect its growth and flowering months after the stress ends, according to new research from the Donald Danforth Plant Science ...

The discovery of a gene that regulates the angle of root growth in corn is a new tool to enable the breeding of deeper-rooting crops with enhanced ability to take up nitrogen, according to an ...