Many varieties of ornamental corn have a variety of other uses. Every fall display needs a few dried corn stalks or a few ears of brightly colored, dried corn. The ears available now range from deep ...

On the last Sunday of September, I found myself stuffing a 7-foot-tall bunch of dried corn stalks into the trunk of my car — an “impulse” buy that my 10-year-old son Theo had convinced me to make at ...

Many posts and porch pillars are clad nowadays in a bundle of cornstalks possibly a tie and some decorative corn and a pumpkin or two. Farmers are seen with their large corn pickers bringing in the ...

Maybe it’s the pleasant fall days or the easier access to pumpkins, dried corn stalks, big furry spiders and ghostly apparitions, but Halloween seems to eclipse other times with seasonal decor. Entire ...

In nearly 40 years, there’s never been a fire at the family-owned Burke Nursery and Garden Centre. That is, until last Monday, Sept. 22. Owner Hope Schmid said they received a delivery of dried corn ...

Pumpkins on display in front of the Apple Works in Trafalgar. The agritourism site offers fresh-picked apples, a you-pick pumpkin patch, baked goods and a wealth of activities and music on weekends.

The Climate-Resilient Crop and Livestock Project gives Missouri farmers and ranchers funding and technical help to make their operations more climate-smart. On a small farm near Laddonia, Brian ...

Rancher Bob Muelrath, his sister, Mary Oliver, and his longtime girlfriend, Audrey Wheeler, began planning this year's pumpkin patch last year, just as they are thinking ahead now to next year while ...