Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corn harvest in Minnesota (Image by Bob Pool, Shutterstock) The U.S. Department of Agriculture has officially deregulated a new ...

A sure sign of summer is freshly harvested sweet corn. This vegetable is No. 1 in terms of acreage planted in Lancaster County, and probably many other counties in Pennsylvania as well. While the ...

A type of corn marketed by Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. is failing to live up to promises that it prevents a damaging worm from feeding on the crop, according to a group of insect experts. Corn ...

One of Colorado's most beloved crop is in trouble again. Worms are infesting a type of sweet corn that's grown in a small pocket on the state's western slope. Farmers are trying new methods to fight ...

Researchers are hoping corn earworms skipped health class in high school so they can curb their growth with a new idea after the insects became more resistant to the common insecticides farmers have ...

Corn rootworms, pests responsible for billions of dollars in yearly crop losses, are evolving resistance that weakens even the latest biotechnology controls, according to a new study published in the ...

OLATHE, Colo. — Hot summer days and cool summer nights – it's part of the magic that happens behind the delicious sweet corn grown in Olathe located on the Western Slope of Colorado – but this year's ...

Sweet corn farms in Olathe are facing a slew of bitter problems as a rise in crop pests has drastically impacted this year’s harvest. An infestation of helicoverpa zea — better known to the public as ...

In the baking sun, under big, cotton-ball clouds, farmer John Harold shucked an ear of the corn that made him — and the small town of Olathe, Colorado — famous. “You can see by the marks here that the ...

A Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment researcher is leading a new project that could help farmers ...