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Do you have what it takes to grow high-yield corn?

Mr Morganfield's set of influential but elusive blues at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival is here reissued on vinyl with bonus tracks

The bluesman who Miles Davis once described as the "funkiest man alive" discusses his love of B.B. Kings signature Gibson, his most beloved Fender amps, and the guitarist who came closest to his styl

Farmers have the least control over weather, but it has the largest impact. “Weather dictates when you can plant and the weather after you plant dictates the success of your planting date,” said Fred Below.

Bt corn, which is engineered to produce the bacterial toxin, Bt, that organic farmers spray on foods all of the time, is better than a pesticide because is naturally resists attack by the corn rootworm, a pest that feeds on roots and can cause losses of up to $1 billion annually.

"Historically, weather patterns have been shifting towards increased precipitation intensity and variability."

Across the country, farmers are adapting to a warming climate. But even with change after change, yields are going up, thanks to technological advances. How long can the trend continue?

URBANA, Ill. — This time of year, a visit to the test plots at the University of Illinois is as much fun for farmers as a county fair is for

Hans Schmitz, an Indiana wheat farmer, made a difficult decision this year. In a last-minute call, he planted only 100 acres of wheat, roughly half the

My dad told me you could hear corn grow. Really?