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Chef Ashish Alfred, who co-hosts the show Bar Rescue, is also #TeamBoiling. “If you actually want to taste the corn, boiling ...
Nearly 60,000 acres of land in our county are dedicated in any given year to growing this peculiar grass species.
Indigenous peoples originally cultivated corn's wild ancestor, teosinte, over 9,000 years ago in what is now Mexico. That corn, called maize, was more similar to field corn, as sweet corn wasn’t ...
A corn maze was cut in the field, some string lights were hung, and people showed up to get lost. Isabella Owellette, 9, and her mother Kiirsi try to navigate the Anderson Farms Corn Maze on Oct ...
When corn season arrives, I make this on repeat. I grew up in central Indiana, where corn fields were as common as strip malls and fast food restaurants. As a kid, I remember passing farms on my ...
There, they feed in the waste grain of cut corn and sorghum fields, and can also scratch around for seeds in haybales left for livestock, and the grain left behind in cow pies.
Sweet corn is a genetic mutation of field corn, producing kernels consisting mostly of sugar rather than starch. Recent sweet corn hybrids have been bred for even higher sugar concentrations.
U.S. Crop Watch producers have all but wrapped up their 2024 corn and soybean harvests, which progressed quickly amid persistent dry weather, and overall yields wound up a bit better than average.
A corn baler caught fire near a Fond du Lac County cornstalk field and spread into the nearby field Oct. 24.
The corn’s smaller stature and sturdier base enable it to withstand winds of up to 50 mph — researchers hover over fields with a helicopter to see how the plants handle the wind.
Yields may be cut by as much as half where a derecho flattened crops as it swept through Iowa this week, agriculture officials said. Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig said in a call with ...