For decades, researchers have debated the subsistence strategies of precolonial societies in the Brazilian Cerrado (tropical ...

A new USDA rule allows farmers to quantify carbon intensity for regenerative practices to boost biofuel profits.

CHICAGO, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture, long the world's gold standard for crop estimates, faces mounting doubts about the reliability of its data from farmers, grain traders ...

This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from new developments in ape cognition to an expanded perspective of a ...

It is hard to imagine a world without corn. It sweetens our sodas, fuels our cars, fattens our livestock, and forms the core of countless meals. Whether you are biting into a buttery cob at a summer ...

A public art installation in Dublin, Ohio, called "Field of Corn," was recently ranked among America's ugliest public art. The sculpture features 109 human-sized ears of corn and memorializes the area ...

There’s something in the air—can you smell it? It’s sweet, slightly vegetal, even floral. It’s corn, and it’s living rent free in the minds of bakers and pastry chefs around the country. Corn mania ...

CHICAGO, Sept 12 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers will reap a record corn crop this autumn, eclipsing the previous record set two years ago by nearly 1.5 billion bushels after harvesting their largest acreage ...

Jodie Kautzmann is an editor, baker, and confectioner with more than 15 years of experience in content creation, recipe development, and pastry production. She's obsessed with the fine details and ...

It's high summer in the Midwest and the corn is "sweating." The process, which despite its nickname does not involve any actual sweating in our sense of the word, is officially known as ...

No baking dish needed — this one-pan meal cooks lasagna noodles directly in a creamy corn sauce. Layers of fresh corn, creamy ricotta, and tender lasagna noodles come together in this summery skillet ...

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 ...