Americans love corn. While you might think the Cornhusker State produces the most of this staple grain, a different contender ...

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According to the USGS, an average acre of corn can transpire upwards of 4000 gallons of water each day. As an example, last year in Iowa, there were 13.1 million acres of corn planted last year.

Read more on hail damage in corn in the ISU Publication: IPM 78: Hail on Corn. Soybean field with severe hail damage. (Photo by Gentry Sorenson, Iowa State University.) ...

100 mph winds were clocked in Oelwein, Iowa, which is located northeast of Waterloo. Chip Flory says driving through the damage, he describes fields and infrastructure damaged in northeast Iowa on ...

Lori Abendroth, a corn agronomist with Iowa State University in Ames, helped pinpoint the best numbers to crunch from the U.S. Department of Agriculture database. The Field of Dreams itself ...

The phenomenon has for years been blamed by some for sweltering summer conditions in Iowa, yet recent research shows that ...

How an Iowa Corn Field Saved the Los Angeles Lakers In 1960, the Minneapolis Lakers were traveling back from St. Louis on their team plane. The plane lost electrical power soon after takeoff, ...

That is about eight days ahead of last year's planting, which resulted in the highest-ever yields for Iowa corn farmers. They averaged about 211 bushels per acre.

Tim Burrack, a northern Iowa farmer in his 44th growing season, has taken to keeping a wary eye out for unfamiliar vehicles around his 300 acres of genetically modified corn seeds.