Brynn LaForest, 13, and Weston Lancto, 3, find their way through the haunted corn maze at Whitney's Farm Market & Garden Center on Sunday as part of Pumpkinfest, running through Thursday, Oct. 31.

In addition to bookwork on the farm, many farmers are placing orders for seed corn for planting in the spring of 2026. That is challenging, and University of Illinois crop physiologist Dr. Fred below ...

The growing season has been far from perfect for the eastern Corn Belt, but a northeast pocket of the Corn Belt just might be the garden spot for corn this year. Portions of Indiana and Illinois have ...

The achievements of George Washington Carver, the 19th century scientist credited with hundreds of inventions, including 300 uses for peanuts, have landed him in American history textbooks. However, ...

A steady stream of mail — both email and snail mail — was unleashed by last month’s mystery tool, a picture of which ran Aug. 23 in LNP and on LancasterOnline. The tool is from the collection of ...

Is there any vegetable that screams Ohio summer more than sweet corn eaten on the cob? Some gardeners might argue that the tomato is the more popular vegetable grown in Ohio, and it is the state fruit ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — "Shaping the future" is the theme Harold Wolle wants to follow for his time as president of the National Corn Growers Association. “I think that’s important,” Wolle said. “We need ...

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Corn farming is an important economic contributor in the U.S., not only to growers and rural communities but across 506 industry sectors in all 50 states. That’s according to the new “Study of the ...

KALAMAZOO, MI -- It’s time to get lost in a corn maze, as the fall season gets under way in Southwest Michigan. There’s a handful of area farms, where the owners of each have a unique take on ...

LASALLE, Colo. — Fritzler Farm Park will honor a Colorado nonprofit with a corn maze design this autumn. This year, the LaSalle corn maze honors Hero Expeditions, a nonprofit organization based in ...

How does a family of city dwellers transition to living on a historic farm deep in Lancaster County’s Amish country? If you pose that question to the father-son team of David and Jonathan Denlinger, ...