The massive derecho that swept across parts of five Midwest states in August 2020 spawned 125 mph-plus straight-line winds, torrential rain and large hail. In the process, the storm damaged ...

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Hybrids are a cross of two parents to create a new, stronger seed. Corn that self-pollinates — inbred — Lloyd said, is not high producing or high quality. “When you cross dog breeds or ...

Have you ever passed by a large corn farm and wonder why the farmers ... The reason this is often done by commercial growers ...

Golden Harvest, Downers Grove, Illinois, has added 12 new hybrids to its corn portfolio for the 2023 season. The new corn seed products, which include 10 corn hybrids and two conventional corn ...

A nod to the growing suburb's agricultural past, CORNival celebrates the 100th anniversary of the country's first acre of commercial hybrid seed corn being harvested. The 1923 harvest came during ...

Hybridization in corn is "easy," says a UNL researcher, and its also allowed for rapid development of better seeds throughout the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

older-style hybrid,” said Myron Stine, the president of Adel-based Stine Seed Company. Stine has been breeding shorter varieties of corn for years. They classify short corn as having a height of ...

Corn is also the biggest raw material in the livestock feed industry. “The maize F1 hybrid variety will be procured through this intervention,’’ Ms Herwig said. She was referring to first-generation ...

The 1923 hybrid corn harvest came during an Iowa State ... They didn't win, but they got a contract for their corn seed, laying the foundation for what would become Pioneer Hi-Bred International ...