A final ruling by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service allows farmers and growers to run field trials on corn plants with genetic traits developed by ...

The Associated Press Farmer Juan Vargas shows samples of his heirloom corn grown on his farm in Ixtenco, Mexico, on June 15. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A thin section of a maize ear at a very early stage of development (about 3 millimeters long). Each color represents the ...

Thanksgiving is over and all of our autumn decorations have been taken down and put away. One of the decorations we used this year was Painted Mountain corn. It is an open-pollinated variety that was ...