These accounts illustrate that the feast was not centered around turkey, as is commonly believed today. Instead, it highlighted the bounty of the land and the cooperative spirit between the settlers ...

History Colorado debuted a new exhibit on Saturday featuring 50 different artifacts from U.S. history to mark the state and ...

But they knew what to do when it was proclaimed: Eat. "They ate anything they could get their hands on," said Leslie ...

Grains form the base of diets around the world and each one has many benefits. This ancient grain packs a nutritional punch ...

There were wild turkeys in North America in the 1620s, so there could have been turkeys at the first harvest festival, but ...

Corn is Africa's largest cereal crop, cultivated on more than 40 million hectares of farmland across the continent.

Insects that feed on starch can find veritable feasts in corn, pea, and bean crops or warehouses. It is no coincidence that the ancestors of these ...

Shorter corn is taking root in the Midwest as farmers test new hybrids that are more resilient, can be planted more efficiently and result in a larger harvest.

Human hands shaped them. Nature perfected them. Now, super pigs roam continents as unstoppable invaders. From their roots in domestication to their explosive reemergence in the wild, this is the ...

LAWRENCE — A new study appearing in Nature Microbiology analyzes soils sampled across the state of Kansas to determine the importance of "legacy effects" — or how soils from a specific location are ...

Visitors to this year’s Lake Metroparks Corn and Pumpkin Weekend are able to go back in time by creating handmade corn husk dolls. “We’re going back to the old days when pioneer children didn’t have ...

Corn futures are showing fractional to penny losses across most contracts on Friday. The CmdtyView national average Cash Corn price is down 3/4 cent at $3.77 1/4. The harvest price for crop insurance ...