Drought was a major storyline for U.S. crop conditions last summer. Dry conditions spurred by La Nina weighed on corn yields across areas of the Corn Belt. As La Nina fades, and El Niño starts to ...

I can never eat enough summer corn, said Melissa Clark in The New York Times. “Why resist when the season’s nearly over?” The challenge for me is to avoid eating basically the same thing ...

For farmers and those involved in hybrid seed production, such a time came when blight blew across the Corn Belt in the summer of 1970 ... economically devastating field crop disease of any ...

Sweet corn and field corn are two distinct types of corn ... Sweet corn is harvested in the summer while the kernels are still tender and juicy, before the sugar turns into starch.

While field corn prioritizes starch for use in livestock feed, ethanol production, and cornmeal, sweet corn focuses on ...