AMES, Iowa – A researcher at Iowa State University is urging Iowa farmers to adopt a diverse range of pest management tactics to suppress the resistance of western corn rootworm to Bt corn, a widely ...
The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. Southern rust appears on a corn plant’s leaf. The disease has popped up throughout Iowa through a ...
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Best corn companion plants – 7 crops guaranteed to help you get bigger yields and repel troublesome pests
Corn is a glorious summer homegrown vegetable that tastes perfect when eaten within an hour of being picked from the plot. Freshly harvested corn surpasses any you get in the store, and that is why it ...
Aug 27, 2025 Aug 27, 2025 Updated Dec 18, 2025 0 Nicolle Ritchie, an extension agent with Michigan State University, inspects corn for pollination issues Aug. 18 in Nottawa, Mich. A corn plant shows ...
High temperatures and insect damage to the silks are common causes of poor ear fill in sweet corn. Stress from high temperatures, overwatering, underwatering or poor plant nutrition can cause newly ...
Amyrose Foll explains that there are many varieties of corn beyond the usual sweet corn you see in a grocery store and shares advice for growing unique cultivars side by side while avoiding cross ...
Last spring, I wrote a column about how desolate farm country looked with all the fields plowed up and nothing allowed to grow but corn or soybeans. Now the fields are grown up with the corn plants ...
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