University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders know profitability is about more than yield. By tweaking kernel ...

At the same time downstream seed treatments have helped build new product and service portfolios for ag retailers, there’s another growing opportunity. The list of products to be applied in the seed ...

A new seed treatment designed to keep birds away from freshly planted fields has received regulatory approval. Arkion life Science LLC. recently gained approval for its Avipel bird repellent from the ...

Corn on the cob is one of life's biggest treats, but there's rarely a surprise when you peel the husk. That's not the case with Glass Gem corn. Peeling the husk from this variety of corn is like ...

Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. Shortly after, the company that sells the rare ...

USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking comments on the approval of a corn variety genetically engineered to resist western corn rootworm and glufosinate-ammonium herbicides. The ...

Maizex Seeds, owned and operated by Canadian farmers, produces and sells corn and soybean seeds to farmers across Canada under the Maizex brand. The company also sells forage seeds and cereal ...

Corn (Zea mays), or maize, as it is called in many parts of the world, is one of the most diverse treasures bestowed upon us by our farming ancestors. Over the centuries Mesoamerican farmers, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Nearly every foraging honey bee in the state of Indiana will encounter neonicotinoids during corn planting season, and the common seed treatments produced no improvement in crop ...

MANILA, Philippines - Agriculture biotechnology firm Monsanto Philippines is introducing four new high-yielding and disease-resistant BT corn seed varieties in the next three years as it produces most ...

Workers for a branch of Doneed Seed, a production company based in Beijing, sort corn seeds in Zhangye, Gansu province, on Saturday, in preparation for spring planting. [Photo by Wang Jiang/for ...