It’s not really summer until you bite into a warm, juicy ear of corn on the cob, fresh from the farmers market or a roadside stand. But while everyone’s used to seeing yellow and white kernels when ...

The Associated Press Farmer Juan Vargas shows samples of his heirloom corn grown on his farm in Ixtenco, Mexico, on June 15. For years, Vargas worried that these heirloom varieties — running from deep ...

Glass Gem corn, a unique variety of rainbow-colored corn, became an Internet sensation in 2012 when a photo of the sparkling cob was posted to Facebook. Shortly after, the company that sells the rare ...

When picturing a fresh ear of corn on the cob, you probably think of bright yellow kernels or speckles of white and yellow all lined up in pretty rows. But did you know there is an edible variety of ...

Oklahoma farmer Carl Barnes, who died in 2016, isolated types of corn from his Native American ancestors. Barnes saved and replanted seeds from particularly colorful cobs. A fellow farmer started ...