A soil sample typically consists of 5 to 10 cores of soil to tillage depth from a 5- to 20-acre field. A single corn plant, on the other hand, extracts nutrients from several cubic feet of soil.

Standing guard for an entire crop season, a red Ohio State University (OSU) flag flew patiently over a plant named Terra Byte. Beyond gathering the most data on a single corn plant across an ...

Farmers will have trouble eking out a profit this year, experts say, but they see corn as the better route to earnings than ...

CHICAGO, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Farmers in the U.S. plan to plant more corn and fewer soybeans this spring than they did last year, hoping to eke out a profit and shield themselves from U.S. President ...