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Farmers across the Midwest harvest billions of bushels of corn nowadays using giant machines called combines. But a contest keeps a more primitive corn-picking technique alive: human hands.
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Good weather and bumper corn crops for the last two years have generated a surplus of corn and, in turn, lower prices for area farmers. Susan Fox, Lyon…
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The US Global Change Research Program released its third climate assessment this week, which found Kentucky farmers could continue to see rising summer…
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A new agriculture forecast says plenty of rain and cooler temperatures mean Kentucky grain farmers could see productive yields later this year.The…
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From NPR: Last year, drought devastated many corn farmers, so you think they’d welcome all the spring rain. But it’s putting them behind schedule because…
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Tennessee farmers may be lamenting losses to the corn harvest resulting from this summer’s drought, but midsummer rains have saved most of their other…
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This year’s drought hasn’t just lessened corn crops in our region. It’s also left stalks too low for the fall tradition of corn mazes.Sam Brown of…
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The U.S. corn harvest continues ahead of schedule with some states nearly half-finished at a time when they usually are just getting started. In its…
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Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer is warning livestock producers and corn growers to take steps to avoid harming livestock by feeding them…
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Extreme heat and little rains have all but doused any hopes for a successful corn crop in our region. Kentucky’s corn and soybean crops rank lowest for…