Our bodies absolutely need carbohydrates for energy. It’s a matter of survival. So much so, that some human populations have ...

Pairwise has formed a five-year joint venture with Corteva to deploy gene editing tech to increase climate resilience in corn ...

Native peoples have been cultivating the Four Corners potato in the American Southwest as far back as 10,000 to 11,000 years ...

It was around 10,000 years ago that native peoples of Mexico first domesticated corn and around 500 years ago that it was first transported away from the Americas. Since then, corn has been adopted ...

The theory is that we face two crises—climate change and the rapid loss of biodiversity—and that the same patch of land might ...

Corn sweat is the process by which corn plants release moisture into the air to stay cool, and it brings the Midwest a surge ...

Calves can be weaned on a diet of no more than 2-4 pounds of roughage per day. If feeding corn during weaning you must be careful not to overfeed calves and create acidosis. Calves as young as 3 ...

I had coffee recently with a former student to hear about her new family member – a baby girl. She said she enjoyed listening ...

For the longest time I did not know how the Luby's baked whitefish topping was made. Finally, I asked and was told the ...

When you sip a pumpkin spice latte or light up a pumpkin spice candle, you owe trees a “thank you.” “Most of the spices come from trees,” said Spencer Campbell, Plant Clinic manager of The Morton ...

Today is Mexican Independence Day — commemorating independence from Spanish rule in 1810. Today, it is also also known as guacamole day. Avocados are native to south central Mexico, and the first ...