Sweet corn is one of the few crops for which insect pests drive most of the pest management program. A number of caterpillar pests attack sweet corn, infesting ears and rendering the ear and the whole ...

Researchers are hoping corn earworms skipped health class in high school so they can curb their growth with a new idea after the insects became more resistant to the common insecticides farmers have ...

There are quite a few steps that happen before you find Olathe Sweet Corn piled high in your local grocery stores. David Harold of Tuxido Farms in Olathe hopes people know the situation in which sweet ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - July starts the sweet corn harvest. In Olathe, over 20 million ears of corn are produced every sweet corn season, and about 400,000 ears a day. On July 22, KKCO went to ...

Line it up, Iowans, it is sweet corn season. Many local producers harvested their sweet corn for the Fourth of July. The Des Moines Register spoke with local sweet corn farmers and Iowa State ...

About two years ago, things didn’t look entirely good in John Harold’s sweet corn fields. Corn earworm moth larvae were hatching in the heat, diminishing how much of the signature “Olathe Sweet” sweet ...

Sweet corn (Zea mays var. saccharata) is a mutant strain of corn (or maize) that accumulates about twice the amount of sugar in its endosperm (seed storage tissue) than does field corn. Maize is ...

Growing corn yourself will give you the sweetest, freshest ears, and all you need is a sunny spot.