As Ellen Bacca, chief meteorologist at Nexstar’s WOOD, explains, corn and crops “sweat” just like humans when they become hot ...

Jimmy Red corn is an heirloom crop that generations of moonshiners knew for its nutty sweet flavor and high oil content. Scientists know it as one of a few plants that could help grow food in the ...

Corn, as modern humans know it, doesn’t grow in the wild. But in the 1930s, George Beadle discovered that teosinte and modern corn’s chromosomes are compatible.

With that title comes an increased dew point thanks to a process called evapotranspiration , or corn sweat. The crop ...

A joint venture between Lycra and Cargill expects that fabric products made with Midwestern corn could be on shelves later ...

An attempt to grow an ear of corn in the University of Illinois' orange-and-blue school colors failed miserably — it turned out an ugly green. Yet out of that failure has come genetic research ...

Growing corn in a home garden can be an adventure, to say the least. I can give you some standard advice on growing corn, but I’ll also share some stories of our own experience for your amusement.