GENESEO, Ill. — David Powell spent the last 13 July's walking through corn fields. He's one of about 18 people detasseling corn at a Geneseo research field for Wyffels Hybrids. His average of about 17 ...

WYOMING, Iowa — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other ...

As a teenager in a small Iowa town in the 1980s, I would join dozens of kids around this time of summer on crews at a Cargill research plot where we helped scientists control pollination of corn ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer ...

The end-of-season corn stalk nitrate test (CSNT) is a simple, inexpensive tool that can be used to assess the nitrogen (N) status of a corn crop at the end of the growing season. Data from studies ...

As Caleb Hamer evaluated his corn last weekend, he says the crop looked like it flipped a switch and decided it was done growing for the season. “Between the southern rust, some tar spot, and I think ...

Scientists at Washington State University have found a new way to produce sugar from corn stalks and other crop waste, potentially opening a new pathway to sustainable biofuels. Newly published in ...

When corn is converted to ethanol today, only the corn's kernels are used. The stalks and husks are largely considered to be waste. This is because, as every moonshiner knows, only the corn's kernels ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey walks among short corn stalks in one of his fields, Sept. 16, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Buy Photo WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in ...