Looking to increase yield without spending a fortune? Consider these management tips for finding those last five, ten or ...

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 ...

Those weather factors, along with rising temperatures and humidity levels, all play a part in the success of corn pollination, notes Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field agronomist. Despite the ...

"It's my corn," says Kevin Costner in the 1989 movie "Field of Dreams," but really it is everybody's corn. "Field of Dreams," based on the W.P. Kinsella novel "Shoeless Joe," is about baseball and ...

Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot ... Minimum of two samples must be taken for every 10 acres and no less than 10 samples per field. - Soil sampling is not ...

Across the Corn Belt, Wednesday’s Midwestern high temperatures should range from near 45°F in the Great Lakes region to 60°F ...

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sweet corn makes up less than 1% of the total crop. The rest is starchy and dry field corn, which is mostly used to feed cows. Indigenous peoples originally cultivated corn's wild ancestor ...

I recently took an exciting ride in a spendy vehicle, the kind that comes with a price tag well into the six figures. A Bently? A Rolls? A Dragon spaceship? Nope. It was my neighbor’s combine. Modern ...

Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly every corn field in Delaware, and severity and incidence varies from year to year. Stalk rots can cause breakage and lodging of stalks and plant death. In many ...