Corn Stalks. It’s What’s for Dinner … If You’re a Microbe.

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Corn Stalks. It’s What’s for Dinner … If You’re a Microbe.

Engineers have developed a strain of a common bacterial species that can feed exclusively on the three major sugars present in corn stalks.

Kansas corn crop ahead of schedule

A north-central Kansas farmer says there’s plenty of variability in his corn crop this year. Shale Porter says early planted corn is almost across the finish line. “My April planted dryland corn was beginning to dent about 10 days ago.  A rain anytime know would help keep our kernel weights up, but that crop is […] The post Kansas corn crop ahead of schedule appeared first on Brownfield Ag News.