Jesse O'Driscoll: County commissioners, build row houses by the corn tower Let the people, not developers, decide what to do with the Seneca Foods site.

G rowing corn in a small backyard plot is totally doable if you plan carefully and give the plants what they need to thrive.

More information: Varsha Gupta et al, Optimizing corn agrivoltaic farming through farm-scale experimentation and modeling, Cell Reports Sustainability (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.crsus.2024.100148 ...

“However, the variability from one corn row to another increases as the tracker height is reduced,” they further explained. “Another interesting finding is that for our PV module sizes, ...

And what if they grew a shorter variety of corn? “One season is one data point. If you want to change your variables, there’s only one summer every ... cabbages and peppers. But those crops occupy a ...

In this edition of American Agriculture History Minute, Mark Oppold takes .....1700s and early 1800s, a period when corn planting was a labor ...

A Purdue University research team has demonstrated how to optimize yield in corn fields equipped with solar power arrays that throughout the day cast dynamic shadows across growing crops. The team ...