The ancestors of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin built earthen mounds to grow crops. The site could be the largest preserved archaeological field system in the eastern United States ...

Between two corn fields in central Iowa, ... Indian paintbrush blooms at Penn-Sylvania Prairie in Missouri. Nearly 300 plant species have been recorded at this 160-acre site.

But soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former self. U.S. farmers grow corn on about 90 million acres each year, usually making it the nation's largest crop.

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Corn farmers are collecting their harvest as summer transitions to fall with some fields looking a little more brown than green. Lucas Haag with the Kansas State University ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) ...