While consumers might need time to adjust to the idea of eating purple corn, there are other ways to incorporate the health benefits of non-traditional corn varieties into our food supply.

Researchers from the University of Missouri have been analyzing dozens of different varieties of corn. They compared the health benefits of red, blue, and purple maize to traditional yellow dent corn.

Recent cold, wet weather across the Midwest have prompted many farmers to ask about purple corn seedlings again this spring. Cold temperatures and rainy spring weather can be hard on corn stands ...