Forever Growing Needs As the world population keeps rising, our need for more food is increasing as well. We will need to significantly grow more food by 2050 if we are to avoid food deprivation. In ...

Because corn is wind-pollinated, it’s best to plant it in blocks rather than in a single row ... Sweet corn is a heavy feeder, meaning it needs lots of nutrients to fuel its fast growth. Even in rich ...

Corn is a delicious and nutritious crop that is relatively easy to grow at home. Here's a guide on how to grow corn at home ...

The advent of synthetic fertilizer ... Monsanto Growth Ventures and Codon Capital. The company is currently working on a next generation of nitrogen-producing microbes for crops like corn, wheat ...

Use a 2x2 starter fertilizer application (2" over and 2" below the seed). “The close band of nutrition gives corn an initial boost to get out of the ground and growing. Then, there’s the hand ...

Many no-till dairy farmers grow winter crops, such as cereal rye or annual ryegrass and red clover, between corn and forage crops ... approach is considered a best management practice to lessen ...