Plus, the Pacific gum plant is a coastal, ground-hugging perennial that displays a blanket of daisies this time of year.

Qore, a joint venture of Minnesota-based Cargill and Germany-based HELM, is officially starting production of QIRA®, the ...

Dent corn (Zea mays indentata) is the most widely-grown corn variety in the U.S. and the world. It's also known as field corn. While it often gets turned into animal feed, ...

Dent corn, as the name implies, has a small dent in each kernel and is mostly used in its dried form as a grain. A small dent forms on the sides of the kernels as the water inside evaporates.

For the Farmer family in Landrum, S.C., the day is usually marked with a cornbread dressing. The cornbread comes from a dent corn variety that the aptly named Farmers actually grow on their 60 ...

Today only a few farmers plant kernels from those heirloom lines. But cornmeal — usually ground from another hard maize called dent corn — is one of a handful of main ingredients found on ...

Although not totally unexpected, corn bulls were bummed on Thursday to see the sizable supply numbers in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual outlook for the upcoming U.S. crop year.