Plus, the Pacific gum plant is a coastal, ground-hugging perennial that displays a blanket of daisies this time of year.

South American Harvest As the South American harvest season wraps up, the U.S. corn market is shifting its attention to ...

The trade war has heightened China’s need to develop gateways to import the continent’s soybeans, corn and other foodstuffs that are the only viable alternative supply to U.S. exports.

The most common variety of corn traded on the commodity market is known as field corn, or dent corn. This variety is higher in starch and lower in sugar than table corn, which is another popular ...

SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. — As US growers prepare to plant the 2025 corn crop, the market faces many unknowns. Among them are widely varying South American yields and production, crop issues in Europe ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from Mexico carry an outsized risk for farmers in Jacksonville, Illinois, as retaliation by Mexico could prompt corn buyers in that country to turn ...

USDA Shocks the Market By Estimating Farmers Will Plant 94 Million Acres of Corn USDA’s first acreage estimate shows farmers could plant more corn acres this year, but fewer soybean and cotton ...

Between 600 and 1,500 years ago, Indigenous people of the seasonally flooded savannas in the Bolivian Amazon created an advanced farming system that allowed them to grow corn throughout the year ...

A co-founder of AgMarket.net says several factors are influencing price possibilities in the corn market this year. Matt Bennett, who also farms in central Illinois, says issues with the crop in the U ...

Brazilian scientists discovered ancient semi-domesticated maize in Peruaçu Valley, Brazil, the farthest from maize’s Mexican origin ever found, supporting the theory that maize domestication may have ...

The only two missing? South America and Antarctica. There are are no golf courses on Antarctica, but it’s not an indictment on the quality of golf in South America.

Purple corn, commonly known as maiz morado, has more antioxidants than blueberries. Researchers at the University of Missouri are trying to grow a similar corn here in the United States.