Hybridization of other crops followed suit, including canola, rice, sorghum, sunflowers and wheat. Soybean remains an exception because its pollen shed occurs within a closed flower, making ...

HADLEY — Seeing that the silks are brown and dry and the kernels are plump, Joe Czajkowski is having workers at his Shattuck Road farm begin hand-harvesting the 2.2 acres of sweet corn growing beneath ...

PAW PAW, Mich. — Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what's now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, wheat ...

Walk into any Iowa cornfield and you’ll see the result of the longest agricultural research project in U.S. history. From the ...