Branch: A Family of Farms, a grower, packer and shipper of sweet corn in the United States announces that it now offers an organic bi-color corn variety. With the rapid increase in sales of organic ...

Yield gains, denser stands, and improved nitrogen-use efficiency signal broad value across commodity, horticultural, ...

AMES, Iowa – Organic agriculture practices eschew many synthetic fertilizers and pesticides, putting pressure on crops that conventional farming circumvents. That means an organic farmer who doesn’t ...

For decades, the discussion around organic farming has centered on important tenets of sustainability, environmental health, animal welfare, and a vision for food that heals rather than harms. But in ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Sauvie Island’s Bella Organic is still days away from welcoming guests to its corn maze for the season, but the farm has already unveiled the new design that makes a statement ...

From 2014 to 2021, Minnesota farmer James Wolf raised organic soybeans, corn and wheat, selling the grains to farmers across the midwest, both for seed and animal feed. Selling organic grain allowed ...

URBANA, Ill. — When Chris Mujjabi found an envelope marked ‘Kitale Synthetic’ in a cold storage room at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the corn breeder knew he had stumbled on something ...

A truck is loaded with corn next to a pile of soybeans at Matawan Grain & Feed elevator near New Richland. Credit: REUTERS/Karl Plume WEST BEND, Iowa – People who think seriously about how to limit ...