Corn

For decades, corn detasseling was a customary summer job for teenagers in Nebraska and the rest of the Corn Belt. In recent years, however, agriculture companies are relying more on migrant labor to do this work through a visa program meant to supplement the local workforce.

Russia is a big exporter of fertilizer and its raw ingredients, and without them on the market, Midwestern farmers are reeling.

The fertilizer applied to corn, soybean and hay fields costs up to twice as much as a year ago, and that's creating uncertainty as farmers approach planting season.

Eckert’s Millstadt Fun Farm features an intricate corn maze. Hugh McPherson of Maize Quest joined “St. Louis on the Air” to talk about how corn mazes are designed and cut.

Experts say the demand for corn in China is increasing faster than farmers' ability to produce it.

Replacing limestone with basalt rock could lead to healthier soil and better harvests and reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Corn, soybeans, livestock, lumber and wines are all among the products the state is marketing to southeast Asian countries.

Even though the Midwest is tops in field corn production and grows row after row of it, these states don’t stand out when it comes to national...

Researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center want to learn how a changing climate could affect the fertility of corn and other major…

The National Science Foundation has awarded $3.4 million to researchers at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of…