Pairing corn on the cob with a burger and a slice of watermelon is a summer staple. The best-tasting choice is always homegrown, especially if you know when and how to harvest corn at its peak.

Field corn, however, has a more extended stay on the stalk. It is left in the field until the kernels dry and harden, allowing it to reach maximum starch content. The harvesting of field corn ...

Unlike field corn, sweet corn crops are harvested early. However, due to cold and wet weather conditions throughout much of ...

Stalk rots, wind storms and other challenges throughout the year may mean you have down corn. While this is never ideal and often brings yield loss, you can manage your losses through a few steps.

Since the corn is a grain harvest and dries on the stalk in the field, there is a wide window for harvest. GROUND PREPARATION The south end of our garden has been unused for several years.

West Michigan; Corn harvest sits in fields as farmers deal with aftermath of late spring planting. Published: ; Nov. 05, 2014, 6:28 p.m.

In most fields, corn residue is incorporated into the soil with tillage, or is left on the soil surface. But some livestock producers are harvesting corn residue for feed and bedding.

In most fields, corn residue remaining after grain harvest is incorporated into the soil with tillage or is left on the soil surface. But corn residue is also becoming a commodity. It’s being ...

FARGO - The favorable corn-growing weather in August and September has offset some of the corn crop's delayed development resulting from the combination of tough spring planting conditions and a ...

As harvest season approaches, corn appears to be in good shape in this field 4 miles south of DeLand. Our Communities Editor As harvest season approaches, corn appears to be in good shape in this ...

The Rahe brothers harvested the 140-acre cornfield that surrounds the Field of Dreams movie site, and the harvest yields around 31,000 bushels of corn. The 140-acre cornfield in Dyersville yields ...