Corn growers — or anyone with a connection to the U.S. corn belt — knows the saying: Knee-high by the Fourth of July. This sing-song expression for judging a crop's success is at least a ...

We don't want to make too many assumptions, but you probably have a good idea of what corn looks like. They're the crops swaying meaningfully in fields along the highways of Iowa and Nebraska.

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Corn and soybeans reversed to close higher on Wednesday on technical buying as well as improved demand. Rich Nelson with Allendale, Inc. says the trade is anticipating another strong weekly export ...

After a roller coaster season of dips and loops, Russell Hedrick was a final bend away from the bin buster of his life—a record-smashing 459.51 bushels per acre of dryland corn. As Hedrick ...

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly ...

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Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields on Sept. 16 in Wyoming, Iowa. The Associated Press WYOMING, Iowa — Taking a late-summer country ...