Slideshow: Before you receive those new bags of seed corn, multiple steps must occur, including breeding, planting, detasseling, harvesting and processing. Here is a closer look.

Here's how they vary in their uses, flavor profiles, and growing practices. When most people think of corn, sweet corn comes to mind—the fresh corn on the cob we like to boil or grill and ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield ... to the V6 growth stage,” says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. “Dig to find seeds or plants before the evidence is lost.” ...

Seed Corn Maggot Cool and/or wet springs with delayed germination ... Minimum of two samples must be taken for every 10 acres and no less than 10 samples per field. - Soil sampling is not effective. - ...