University of Minnesota Extension crops educator, Hutchinson Corn growth development is now or soon to approach the “R6” stage of reproductive development. This last stage of growth occurs when a ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield. The first step to more ears per field is stand and ear counts. Determine the causes of gaps, late-emerging plants and missing ears so you know how ...

Corn yield results not from the number of plants in a field but rather the number of ears — photocopied ears of sufficient length and girth. Gaps in a stand and plants without ears contribute ...

The Minnesota Ag Statistics Field Office released the field crop status report on Sept. 9 which reports that 85 percent of corn was in the dough stage, compared to 94 percent average. Fifty ...

Minimum of two samples must be taken for every 10 acres and no less than 10 samples per field ... ear zone area can also be used to monitor adult beetles. (c) Adult Counts to Decide on Soil ...

And you won’t see any field corn at the grocery store. “If you grab an ear of field corn and take a bite, you'll probably chip a tooth,” says Smoke-McCluskey. About 40% of US dent corn is ...

Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly every corn field in Delaware, and severity and incidence varies ... Initial symptoms of stalk rots are noticed by premature wilting and ear drop (Figure 1). As ...

The food bank volunteers had their work cut out for them in picking the viable ears of corn from the Greenawalt field. “It’s very labor-intensive,” Sam Greenawalt noted. With a bottled water ...