To him, it's ironic that some early developers of commercial seed corn like Oscar Will in North Dakota built their businesses off of genetics acquired from Plains Indian tribes. "Corn, especially ...

To be completely honest, all corn is, in fact, Indian corn. The simple beauty of ... that gave birth to all modern commercial corn. Each seed represents millennia of growing seasons and favored ...

The early settlers took corn plants and seeds back to their home countries ... Now, what about the colorful "Indian" corn? Where did it originate and why did we call it that?

Ho-Chunk Farms' annual Indian Corn Harvest is reviving and preserving this tradition for the northeast Nebraska tribe.Corn from a Winnebago family's heirloom seeds is grown organically, handpicked ...

Columbus brought maize seeds back to Spain, where the plants were called Indian corn. In the early 1500s corn made its way from Spain to Portugal, Crete and Turkey, then from Turkey to England.

The acquisition will immediately help Rasi double its share in the fast growing Indian hybrid corn seed market, estimated at close to Rs 1,000 crore annually. “Bayer was looking to divest its ...

Because of this exposure, I find it appropriate to personally share how this corn originated and its journey to this day. The original seed was obtained from Carl L. Barnes of Oklahoma.

This led to an exchange of ancient corn seed with people he had met and made friends with all over the country. In growing these older corn varieties, Barnes was able to isolate ancestral types ...