I had been clueless about how to pick ears of corn at the grocery store or farmers market. Bigger is better, right? No way, says Mike Buis, a Martinsville, Indiana farmer who farms 3,000 acres of ...

Once you've found an ear that passes this visual test, pick it up. It should have some heft to it, indicating that its sugars haven't begun converting to starches, a process that dries the corn out.

The food bank volunteers had their work cut out for them in picking the viable ears of corn from the Greenawalt field. “It’s very labor-intensive,” Sam Greenawalt noted. With a bottled water ...

Setting up your planter before planting season begins correlates strongly with corn ear count in the field down ... including bearing chain checks Picking the right attachments for your crop ...

Biotech company Corn Next has released CornNext-17, a corn starch-based material made through a natural fermentation process. It can be used to make biodegradable packaging such as straws ...