AMES, Iowa – A researcher at Iowa State University is urging Iowa farmers to adopt a diverse range of pest management tactics to suppress the resistance of western corn rootworm to Bt corn, a widely ...

High temperatures and insect damage to the silks are common causes of poor ear fill in sweet corn. Stress from high temperatures, overwatering, underwatering or poor plant nutrition can cause newly ...

Seeding rates that are too high can waste input dollars and stress plants under dry or nutrient-limited conditions. Rates ...

The 2025 growing season is presenting challenges with precipitation levels significantly below both last year’s levels and the norm. This sustained dryness is impacting major corn- and soybean-growing ...

Growing your corn lets you enjoy this fresh, popular vegetable right from your own garden or yard. Grown for thousands of years, and a staple of many culture's diets, corn is a timeless crop. Whether ...

I hope everyone is growing something they can eat, but if you haven’t tried yet, consider doing what the Indians did centuries ago and grow the Three Sisters! Growing multiple plants together, called ...

Last spring, I wrote a column about how desolate farm country looked with all the fields plowed up and nothing allowed to grow but corn or soybeans. Now the fields are grown up with the corn plants ...

When I was young, I asked my father why he didn’t grow sweet corn in his garden. He answered that you need a big garden to grow corn. Later, when I had my own vegetable garden, I proved growing sweet ...