The USDA’s 17 billion bushel corn estimate jolted grain markets, dropping soybeans and shifting basis, as farmers reassess ...

Reid Thompson, a fourth-generation farmer in central Illinois, is in the middle of planting season. Weather permitting, he tends to the fields in the morning, walks home for lunch with his wife and ...

A new study predicts a growing gap between the supply of corn and market demand over the next decade, which could continue to ...

Despite shifting market signals, some economists predict corn will remain the undisputed king of the acreage race.

Short corn could be the future of commercial corn. Learn from experts and farmers about its benefits. It’s hard to imagine ...

WASHINGTON D.C. (WCIA) — A congressional consideration of a new Farm Bill is moving from the House to the Senate. One of the staff members of the Illinois Corn Growers’ Association was one of the ...

The researchers say the Green Revolution and exclusive selection for aboveground traits in corn — ignoring traits related to the roots and rhizosphere, the microbe-rich zone surrounding roots — ...

CARROLL COUNTY, ILLINOIS, Ill. — At Neumiller Farms, the partnership between sweet corn and potatoes goes beyond the dinner plate. The specialty crop farm is operated in Carroll County. It produces ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Fall officially kicks off in just a few days, but fall farming will look different this year due to these continued warm temperatures. What does that mean at everyone's favorite ...

CHICAGO ― Mark Tuttle planted more soy and less corn on his northern Illinois farm this spring as prices for both crops hover near three-year lows and soybeans' lower production costs offered him the ...

There’s been increasing attention in recent years to the way conventional farming, in the United States especially, contributes to climate change. Some oft-floated solutions are the practices of ...