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 ...

The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and other agricultural organizations have praised the ruling, viewing it as a vindication of their persistent advocacy efforts. In a significant ...

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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 ...

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 everything other than the sun ...

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 ...