Modern hybrid corn, which cannot even be saved for planting, might seem like a David against this Goliath of history. But in fact, much of it has been engineered to accept herbicide with its ...

That year, only 4.3 inches of rain fell in Winslow, the nearest weather station to her town. Hopi corn requires between 6 and 10 inches of rain. The sustained drought also means there is less ...

On the Hopi Reservation, most farmers rely on the rain to grow crops. Their seeds are adapted to dryland farming, but the prolonged drought has reduced harvests.

Clark grows heirloom Hopi blue, gray, red and white corn in the valley between First Mesa and Second Mesa in the middle of the 2,532 square mile Hopi Reservation in northern Arizona. The seeds that he ...

As planting delays continue, corn and wheat are likely to struggle to gain acres Don Wick of the Red River Farm Network and Randy Martinson of Martinson Ag Risk Management discuss what late ...

USDA’s second planting progress report of the season shows as of April 9, 3% of the nation’s corn crop was planted, which is up 1 percentage point from last week, last year and the five-year ...