It has been almost a month since we finished planting corn and soybeans, and now we are praying for a measurable rainfall and ...

Looking out our backdoor it’s about as good as we could ask for. The corn stands are about the best we’ve ever had.

Freshly graduated from Western Illinois University, Paige Pence is getting an entirely new learning experience this summer as ...

The average corn yield last year in McLean County was nearly 247 bushels per acre. That's enough to blow the minds of the ...

The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest ...

Next year marks the 250th anniversary of America. The Declaration of Independence was adopted on July 4th, 1776. The Corn ...

Ammonium nitrate, an artificial fertilizer, provided a huge boost to the corn crop by replacing the nitrogen in the soil. The same field could be planted in corn without crop rotation. Secondly ...

The machine in its heyday was the predecessor to today’s combines. It didn’t harvest the corn in the field but instead was used by farmers to separate corn from the stalks and plant matter once the ...

DHENDRO, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Under a scorching sun in Democratic Republic of Congo, many of the farmers tending to their fields in the troubled eastern region are ...