For several years, Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Field Agronomist, has been in the market for a planter — specifically a corn planter she could call her own to use in plots. She focused her search on a ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Iowa (AP) -- The old wooden planter was covered in red barn paint and the metal wheels were silver when it was up for auction in Norway. Parke Miller, a 4-H Club member from Williamsburg ...

In discovering a mutant gene that "turns on" another gene responsible for the red pigments sometimes seen in corn, researchers solved an almost six-decades-old mystery with a finding that may have ...

David Hula says farmers are often puzzled when they talk to him about the condition of their corn planter that they just pulled out of the shed and want to take to the field. “A lot of people will say ...

ZEELAND, Mich. — One West Michigan farm is reflecting on a successful season for sweet corn. Foxy Farms in Zeeland is owned by Chad Lamar and his wife. To go from seed to harvest it takes 78 days.