A friend of mine from New York City called the other day and said he had seen a report that the Midwest had yellowing corn. He had thought to himself, “Isn’t corn supposed to be yellow?” It gave me a ...

A final ruling by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service allows farmers and growers to run field trials on corn plants with genetic traits developed by ...

Natural colors specialist DDW will be launching a new food color at the IFT show that will deliver a vibrant red to purple hue, depending on pH, with a “clean, neutral taste.” Derived from a non-GMO ...

The Associated Press Farmer Juan Vargas shows samples of his heirloom corn grown on his farm in Ixtenco, Mexico, on June 15. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep ...