Many would agree that few scenes in Fairfield County speak summer as the seas of green presented by fields of growing corn. In fact, nearly 60,000 acres of land in our county are dedicated in any ...
After worms ravaged last year’s Olathe sweet corn crop, the infestation has returned. But farmers on the Western Slope are banding together and using new tools to fight back. The coalition includes ...
Sweet and field corn is planted at the Thomas Gearhart Farm along Turkey Valley Road in Frankstown Township. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski What a difference a year makes. Last year, the region’s ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A truck driver with the Tuxedo Corn Company prepares a load of Olathe Sweet brand sweet corn to be transported from a field to the company’s distribution ...
Mirror photos by Patrick Waksmunski Brandon Wingert of Wingert Farms sprays herbicide on a corn field along Hileman Road near Skelp on Thursday afternoon. Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski Sweet corn ...
According to American folk wisdom, the best moment to sow corn is when oak leaves are ‘the size of a squirrel’s ear’. Instead ...