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One of the products Bayer will introduce is a short-stature corn that performed well in the 2020 derecho that swept across Iowa and other states with winds up to 140 mph, leaving behind fields of ...
Like its largest competitor, Bayer AG, Corteva also is working to develop a high-yielding, short-stature corn plant that can better withstand high winds like the August 2020 derecho that swept ...
As a teenager in a small Iowa town in the 1980s, I would join dozens of kids around this time of summer on crews at a Cargill research plot where we helped scientists control pollination of corn ...
This is a list of commonly cultivated varieties of sweet corn, and the approximate number of days from germination of corn plant to harvest.Unless otherwise noted with the term open pollinated, all varieties are hybrids.
The first popular full- and short-season, large volume, single-cross maize hybrids were DeKalb hybrids 805 and XL 45. As a result, DeKalb was the leader in U.S. hybrid seed corn sales from the mid-1930s until the mid-1970s (Crabb 1948. Roberts 1999). [2]
1926 - Hi-Bred Corn Company is founded in Des Moines, Iowa, with $7,000 in capital. [7] 1931 - Roswell Garst agrees to produce/distribute seed. The following year Garst partners with Charles Thomas to form the Garst and Thomas Seed Corn Company. 1935 - "Pioneer" was added to the name of the company to distinguish it from other hybrid corn ...
Reid's Yellow Dent is a variety developed by central Illinois farmer James L. Reid. Reid and his father, Robert Reid, moved from Brown County, Ohio, to Tazewell County, Illinois, in 1846 bringing with them a red corn variety known as "Johnny Hopkins", and crossed it with varieties of flint corn and flour corn. [1] Most of today's hybrid corn ...
Foundation corn is the parent seed from which hybrids are made. Established in 1937, in Williamsburg, Iowa by Roland Holden, Holden was the largest independent producer of foundation seed in America before being acquired by Monsanto Company in 1997.