Common seed sins include falling in love with a variety or hybrid, squelching corn plant populations and not rotating SCN sources of resistance.

Sitting on a stump beneath the jocote tree in his nursery, Don Fausto explains how he learned to graft trees. As he speaks, his hands and eyes move gently over the dozens of citrus and avocado ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. What do ready-to-bake cinnamon rolls, most french fries and many premade salad dressings ...

Long hours in the field as planting stretches late into the night. When weather and timing matter, the job doesn’t stop at sunset. Lights on, equipment rolling, and seed corn going in until midnight ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado farmers plant tens of millions of corn seeds every year, nearly every one of them covered in a thin layer of insecticide. The neonicotinoids used in ...

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign corn breeders Martin Bohn (left) and Christopher Mujjabi (right) are leveraging public genebanks to speed up the corn breeding process to develop high-quality, ...

Imagine you’re listening to a podcast or scrolling through TikTok and you come across someone who claims to be revealing hidden information. They say that kitchen pantries and store shelves are ...

There were fewer local workers detasseling seed corn in Iowa in 2025 than in previous years as the number of temporary migrant laborers with H-2A visas doing the jobs increased, according to data ...

An employee of Ailes Detasseling walks through a seed corn field near Utica, Neb., in 2024. Detasseling is seen as a rite of passage for Midwest teenagers, but in recent years, more of the detasseling ...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — Crews in Lancaster County after they received reports of a man's arm getting trapped in farming equipment. According to Robert Fulton Fire Company, crews responded to the 1700 ...