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Choosing seeds to grow your plants can be overwhelming with so many options. Learn the difference between heirloom and hybrid ...
Nearly 60,000 acres of land in our county are dedicated in any given year to growing this peculiar grass species.
This summer there’s a roster of new cookbooks catching our team’s attention. They’re telling us about pantry ingredients we ...
Located at the corner of Wabash and Monroe in the Loop, it’s not exactly obvious what Momento, a new Mexican restaurant, is.
Stiles Farm Field Day featured new weed management methods and breakthrough agricultural technology innovations.
The great American corn obsession drives production, fuels tradition and anchors everything from go-to snacks to everyday ...
China will accelerate the introduction of high-oil, high-yield soybean, dense-tolerant and disease-resistant corn, and disease-resistant wheat varieties, the agriculture ministry said. The move is ...
The NCAA announced the regional host city sites for the NCAA baseball tournament on Sunday ahead of Monday's bracket reveal. Here's what to know.
How to calculate corn planting population You should make your corn population decisions based on the field’s three- to five-year history, and you may want to skip exceptionally low- or high ...
Ancestral Menominee farmers grew corn, beans and squash in earthen mounds they built on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Madeleine McLeester Hundreds of years before the arrival of the first Europeans ...
If the wacky weather this spring has kept you from planting some (or all) of your corn acres, it is time to crunch the numbers to see if it is worth switching to a shorter relative maturity. Extension ...