Another Midwest winter has ended, and a new crop season is here. Folks are out planting despite the cold soil temperatures, ...

Corn leafhoppers, invasive herbivorous insects, are capable of spreading the pathogenic corn stunt disease. David Kerns, an extension entomologist with Texas A&M AgriLife, reported in an April 1 ...

But as with disease-causing germs and antibiotics ... the European corn borer (Ostrinia nubilalis). In the lab and field, the ...

There are many dishes that remind us of summertime, including tomato sandwiches, peach cobbler, squash casserole, and one of the comfiest of all summer vegetable sides: creamed corn. As soon as ears ...

For example, farmers may plant corn in their fields one year and soybeans ... so avoiding planting these crops in the same field two years in a row will decrease the disease. However, since Fusarium ...

This trio combines corn, pole beans, and squash or pumpkins ... The aroma of other plants repels insect and disease pests. Interplanting these crops among beans can help reduce pest pressure.

An agronomist with AgriGold says many farmers have tar spot on their mind. Brian Weihmeir, who covers central Illinois, says the yield robbing corn disease is at the forefront of many farmers plans ...

This trio combines corn, pole beans, and squash or pumpkins ... The aroma of other plants repels insect and disease pests. Interplanting these crops among beans can help reduce pest pressure. Summer ...

For the past four years, University of Missouri researchers have been changing the color of corn to see whether purple breeds can provide potential health benefits. Working with a dark purple ...

Although the majority of the positive reports are from field corn, also confirmed corn stunt spiroplasma in sweet corn as well. High levels of disease were found in late-planted and double-cropped ...

The findings come from a new analysis of 12 years of field trials and seed usage data across 10 Midwestern corn-growing states, including Iowa. The study, published in Science, shows rootworms are ...