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Massive Fields Where Native American Farmers Grew Corn, Beans and Squash 1,000 Years Ago Discovered in Michigan
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 ...
Iowa Public Radio9mon
Why more farmers are planting native prairies in their crop fields ...
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.
Yahoo9mon
‘Short corn’ could replace fields blasted by changing climate
WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly ...
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'Short corn' could replace fields - Fox 59
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) ...
WNCT9mon
‘Short corn’ could replace fields blasted by changing climate
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) ...
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'Short corn' could replace fields blasted by changing climate - WKRN News 2
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) ...