University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel composition, they can tailor corn for lucrative biotech applications, industrial ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders Martin Bohn (left) and Christopher Mujjabi (right) are leveraging public genebanks to speed up the corn breeding process to develop high-quality, ...

WAPELLA, Ill. (WCIA) — A seed warehouse went up in flames in Wapella on the property of Evergreen Fertilizer Service on North Chestnut Street. Crews got the call Monday morning, and when they got ...

There were fewer local workers detasseling seed corn in Iowa in 2025 than in previous years as the number of temporary migrant laborers with H-2A visas doing the jobs increased, according to data ...

An employee of Ailes Detasseling walks through a seed corn field near Utica, Neb., in 2024. Detasseling is seen as a rite of passage for Midwest teenagers, but in recent years, more of the detasseling ...

Cornell University researchers have found potential alternatives to neonicotinoid pesticides, which will be phased out for certain New York crops, but they come with some challenges. The Birds and ...

The Make America Healthy Again movement has a surprisingly popular, bipartisan nutrition agenda. But what kind of dent will it make in our overall health? Today, we examine the science behind three ...

DEWITT, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Seven migrant farmworkers from Texas claim they were recruited to work in Iowa where they were paid illegally low wages and forced to live in substandard housing ...

There’s something in the air—can you smell it? It’s sweet, slightly vegetal, even floral. It’s corn, and it’s living rent free in the minds of bakers and pastry chefs around the country. Corn mania ...

Research on 60-inch corn rows with cover crops between them is geared toward the cattle producer looking to graze after corn harvest. Cover crop grows up between 60-inch rows of corn at the Central ...