Well, it's not August yet, and this plant is not exactly corn. But it's close. Gama-grass or turkey-foot grass (Tripsacum dactyloides) is a grass that you can see basically anywhere in the eastern ...

Compounding the usual battle against grass weeds in rotational soybeans this season likely will be the presence of volunteer corn from last year’s corn crop—a result of 2020’s derecho in ...

Indeed, the English word "corn" has been used for a very long time, and in Britain, often refers to just about any kind of grass crop that produces grains. This really is a handsome grass, its ...

Well, it's not August yet, and this plant is not exactly corn. But it's close. This is a grass that you can see basically anywhere in the eastern USA, from Florida and Texas well into the upper ...

Scientists Trace Corn Ancestry From Ancient Grass To Modern Crop. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2005 / 06 / 050603074643.htm. National Science Foundation.

Ethanol made from corn and other crops is finding its way into more and more autos, to the delight of farmers everywhere. But the environment might be better served if biofuels were made from the ...

Switch from corn to grass would raise ethanol output, cut emissions Peer-Reviewed Publication. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, News Bureau ...

The verdict: Corn's direct ancestor is a weedy type of grass called teosinte. Teosinte can still be found growing wild in remote areas of Mexico, and its genes are clearly ancestral to corn's.

In years past, given the price of feed grains, it was a given to buy grain. If one was short of forage, buy grain. If one was looking to expand, buy grain. If one was thinking of the future, build ...

Once established, the fields yielded from 5.2 to 11.1 metric tons of grass bales per hectare, depending on rainfall, says USDA plant scientist Ken Vogel. "It fluctuates with the timing of the ...

It flourishes in droughts; doesn't require environmentally damaging fertilizers; pulls nitrogen out of the soil instead of adding more; and, unlike corn, if used for fuel, Switching from corn to grass ...