Key Points Corn that smells rancid or looks slimy, mushy or moldy is corn on the cob that’s gone bad. Best eaten the day of purchase. Unhusked should be firm and look fresh, including silk tassels.

Mold toxins are obviously bad for animals and can be life-threatening to humans. Toxins produced by Fusarium graminearum can ...

Both diseases are showing up earlier this summer than last year, according to Daren Mueller, Iowa State University plant ...

Mold growth should stop in corn that is dried by hot air to 15 percent, but ear corn isn't ran through a dryer. Farmers with questions should call Tesmer.

Smut, a gray, moldy growth on corn ears, is present in Indiana cornfields every year, but rarely at the level of 2012.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- State researchers are confident that genetically modified corn is not the cause of health problems in hogs on a western Iowa farm.

A producer called me last week to ask if moldy corn should be used as earlage. The answer is, “It depends.” There are several types of mold in fields, depending on the year, weather conditions ...

It is popularly believed that eating corn – loaded with aflatoxin mold – a known carcinogen can cause cancer. However, NHS surgeon Dr. Karan Ranjan busts the myth saying the amount you can consume ...

Some producers have taken moldy corn and dried it down to storable moisture while screening off the fines. Where drying is not an option, propionic acid is recommended.