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 ...

With an increase in severe storms and high winds, row crop farmers are looking for new ways to work with Mother Nature. Several seed companies have been experimenting with short-stature corn. Mark ...

Scientists and seed companies are working on shrinking corn. The subtle difference in height has led to some big changes in how shorter corn can be planted and managed in the Corn Belt. A couple years ...

The extreme wind storms known as derechos have been popping up across the corn belt from Nebraska to Indiana this year. Fred Below, University of Illinois professor of crop physiology, says ...

SERVING LIFE IN PRISON. FALL HARVEST IS WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS OUR STATE. THAT INCLUDES THE STATE’S MILLIONS OF ACRES OF TOWERING CORN STALKS. BUT IN THE FUTURE, THAT TALL CORN, WHILE IT MIGHT NOT BE AS ...

The short corn developed by Bayer Crop Science is being tested on about 30,000 acres in the Midwest with the promise of offering farmers a variety that can withstand powerful windstorms that could ...

Short plants also could be susceptible to a problem called lodging, when the corn tilts over after something like a heavy rain and then grows along the ground, Kelley said. Brian Leake, a Bayer ...