Robotic system checks on corn plants by measuring leaf angles The PhenoBot 3.0 utilized in the system is designed to navigate between corn rows spaced 30 inches (762 mm) apart, which is the ...

AMES, Iowa – The angle of the leaves on a corn stalk directly affects the plant’s ability to soak up the summer sun needed for photosynthesis. Breeders have developed various corn hybrids with an ...

Researchers have created a robotic system that measures leaf angles to help breed quality corn. ... with a design narrow enough to navigate between crop rows spaced 30 inches apart.

Rachelle Havenaar, far left, drives a personnel carrier as, from left, Weston Frye, 13, Ross Redmond, 13, Will Bennett, 14, and Austin Oswalt, 14, detassel corn in a Schoolcraft field Thursday ...

Although sweet corn does require room, in a 4-by-8-foot raised bed you can grow two rows of corn with the plants in each row spaced 10 inches apart. That's 20 plants.

As warmer weather approaches, we conjure up images associated with the upcoming season — longer days, swimming, snow cones, barbecues … and sweet corn.