A phenomenon called "corn sweat" could exacerbate the impacts of the extreme heat blanketing a large portion of the U.S., ...

Corn sweat is exactly what it sounds like: moisture given off by corn. With large swaths of corn fields in the Midwest and ...

The process is known as evapotranspiration, which is how plants, including corn, release water vapor into the atmosphere.

It is “corn sweat” season. The biggest U.S. crop does influence our weather here in Michigan and across the Midwest. All ...

Corn sweat. Yes, the term for how the crop can drive up the humidity through a process called evapotranspiration is a thing.

It’s not that corn sweats more than other plants — an acre releases less moisture on average than, say, a large oak tree — ...

With this added moisture in the atmosphere, it can make an already hot day feel even hotter when you factor in the humidity.

A heat wave will hit Michigan later in the week and the state's corn fields will amplify the extreme temperatures.

Corn is "sweating" just like us during this heat wave, releasing up to 4,000 gallons of moisture per acre each day. Farmers, ...

Corn sweat is a very real phenomenon, and the Midwest has to deal with the excess heat during the late-summer days because of ...

The phenomenon known as “corn sweat” plays a huge role in dew points across the Corn Belt during heat waves. Through a ...

Michigan farmers harvest 297 million bushels of corn from 2.3 million acres of farmland, according to the Michigan Agriculture Council. While corn sweat and high moisture-levels don’t ...