My first experience growing plants in containers was in a rooftop garden in Brooklyn. The previous tenant left behind troughs ...

Scientists have found a new way to produce sugar from corn stalks and other crop waste, potentially opening a new pathway to sustainable biofuels. Scientists at Washington State University have ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey stands among tall and short corn stalks in one of his fields, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. Short corn is more resistant to blowing over in strong winds, and it enables ...

If you build corn stalks for bedding, the carbon penalty will be less. Corn stalks that you can see on top of the ground are not part of the carbon penalty, but the corn root system is ...

Corn stalks are cut and dried out in the field for 15 to 20 days before ears are picked off, manually unhusked, completely de-kerneled with passed down tools, and sorted by kernel size to be sold.

Corn takes on myriad configurations, from the classic corn on the cob to popcorn to more processed options including corn flour and corn syrup. How, then, do you classify such a versatile food?

Grazing corn residue — or corn stalks — also is an option for cattle producers, at least through early winter. Undi's studies looked at how frequently producers should supplement dried ...

Bundled in groups of five or six, his corn stalks shoot out of the sandy desert in bunches, resembling bushels rather than tightly spaced rows. “We don’t do your typical 14-inch spaced rows,” he says.

The demonstration made in various places last week over the first publication of a book, a magazine and a newspaper* printed on paper made from corn stalks was rather perfervid. Yet enthusiasm was ...

I had spent the past 80 minutes weaving through rows of corn, and every time I closed my eyes, I saw afterimages of green, leafy stalks. The parking lot where I arrived was a faint memory ...

As soon as we started our trek into the depth of the corn stalks, we found ourselves asking: What is the end goal here? Were we headed to the middle? To an exit on the other side? We weren’t ...