You can’t construct a strong building on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a great corn crop on a weak root system. From freezing temperatures to voracious underground pests and other threats, ...

Sweet corn and popcorn are popular vegetable garden crops with a rich history of cultivation in North America. They are closely related to each other, to flint corn and flower corn, to the starchy ...

Is there any vegetable that screams Ohio summer more than sweet corn eaten on the cob? Some gardeners might argue that the tomato is the more popular vegetable grown in Ohio, and it is the state fruit ...

Studies conducted by Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie show any hybrid’s yield can vary by 6 bu. to 12 bu. per thousand ears, depending on your management practices. One of the key ones is the ...

Is this your first time growing sweet corn? Do you not have the growing techniques down just right after some years of attempting to grow the summer classic? Here are a few growing tips you can do now ...

Iowa is the nation’s top corn grower, with more than 13 million acres devoted to the vegetable, but some Iowans are planting their first small crops of -sweet- corn this spring. Aaron Steil, consumer ...

Growing corn is exciting to watch as it goes from a small, humble seedling to a tall and sturdy plant and eventually produces cobs of corn. However, counting on your harvest in advance could lead to ...

Weather events and latent environmental stressors are making it increasingly difficult to produce good yields of corn every year. With these added pressures, scientists are working hard to develop new ...