The Cornjerkers (Illinois) are the No. 8 seed in the South region, while the Winged Beavers (Connecticut) are No. 9.

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, March 13 (Reuters) - U.S. grain prices have surged since the Iran war began, triggering a flurry of ...

The Smith family captures value from cover crops twice—first as high-quality cattle feed and then as biological fuel for ...

Corn also called maize is one of the most widely cultivated cereal crops in the world. It plays a crucial role in global ...

In Southern Minnesota farmers are done with the soybean harvest and are quickly moving through corn with the help of Mother Nature. While the corn crop in other areas of the Corn Belt has fallen short ...

A crop scientist and two brewers spent nearly a decade breeding a better popcorn — and you can taste the difference.

The Arikara Tribe led the last tribal movement north to North Dakota. They were skilled corn farmers who relied on the crop for sustenance and trade. They were also the first Plains tribe to battle ...

Grain elevators, resembling industrial silos from a different century, rise above the level winter fields along the Mississippi River in southern Illinois. Barges were waiting in long steel lines ...

You think all corn roots are the same? Then you’ve likely never paid close attention to roots on corn exhibited at county fairs. This summer, check out a county fair with 4-H crops on display, ...

Chicago grocery runs could get pricier this year as farmers and truckers grapple with a fresh wave of rising costs. Fertilizer, especially nitrogen products used on corn and soybeans, and diesel fuel ...

Five Illinois producers, including one from Dixon, were honored Thursday as 2026 Master Farmers at Prairie Farmer magazine’s annual event in Bloomington. For more than 100 years, the award has ...

Chinese state-backed money is remaking the hemisphere’s ports, reshaping grain routes to Asia and squeezing U.S. farmers as tariffs deepen the split with Washington.