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Triple-crop sugar corn yields sugar, grain and biomass with less nitrogen
URBANA, Ill — By crossing maize plants adapted to the tropics with lines used as parents of popular Midwestern corn hybrids, researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new type of plant with the potential to yield three crops and use less nitrogen. Sugar corn can be harvested for the grain, the sugar
Custom-built corn coffin auctioned off by Iowa State engineering students
The coffin was designed by Ghanaian carpenter Eric Adjetey Anang, who also designed salmon and lobster-shaped coffins in Oregon and New Hampshire.
A thing of the past: Check row planters
Learn more about planting corn in checkrows.
Ask FSA Andy: Busy time of the year! Sign up now!
Hello Again! Is your corn in the ground? Are you done with beans yet? What? Are you just a bit busy right now? With all this sunshine and the days getting longer, you’re still not done? You know, there’s hay to mow too… Believe me, we understand. Trying to balance the demands of planting, the
Crop prices treading water
URBANA – Following wide swings in September and early October, the prices of corn, soybeans and wheat have traded in relatively narrow ranges in the last half of October.
USDA reports yield just a murmur on grain markets
With the big grain crops, prices do not have a good reason to improve. There are hard decisions ahead for farmers.
Choppers show Farm Science Review visitors sometimes it’s about ‘new chrome’
There were three machines at this year’s Farm Science Review that definitely had people talking — and you can’t use them in the field: custom-built ‘American choppers.’
Corn growers beware: That biotech trait may limit your market, price
SALEM, Ohio – The Ohio and National Corn Growers Associations are giving farmers fair warning: If your seed corn has a rootworm trait, you had better know if it’s fully approved for global use.
Right corn kernel traits give feed efficiency and value a big boost
All corn kernels may look the same, but hidden beneath that yellow shell are characteristics that can make a big difference.
Ohio’s corn and soybean ratings are among the best in the country amid low prices
Marlin Clark offers an update on the grain markets, reporting the quality of Ohio’s corn and soybeans to be among the best in the country.
