There’s good evidence that in Midwestern fields, corn row spacings of 20” or less can provide your crop with several key advantages. At that spacing, yields tend to be higher, up to 10 bushels more ...
Mother Nature routinely sends corn growers production challenges from weeds, insects and disease. Now, she has a trick up her sleeve agronomists are referring to as the “edge effect.” It took a ...
My wife Ashley and I farm alongside our four kids and my parents, Chuck and Tammy. Together we raise corn, soybeans, wheat ...
Riding the country roads throughout the Eastern Shore recently brings back so many memories of the past. The cornfields of today have not changed — the beautiful green rows of corn stalks slightly ...
In preparation for this week's snowstorm, the Minnesota Department of Transportation highlighted its unique standing corn rows program, which compensates local farmers for leaving crops up to reduce ...
Q. Last year, I tried to grow sweet corn in my new garden. I had tons of weeds around the narrow rows. The corn ended up stunted and the ears never developed on many plants. A. Sweet corn can be ...