The USDA Minnesota Crop Progress and Condition for the week ending June 12 reports that Minnesota’s corn condition rated 78 percent good to excellent, up 1 percentage point from the previous ...

To give your crop a fighting chance at profitability, you’ll want to keep an eye out for yield-robbing corn seedling diseases. 1. Pythium has at least 14 species that can damage corn.

If corn is rotated with other annual crops, a rootworm insecticide is generally not needed. Continuous corn fields should be monitored 3-4 times from late July to mid-August to determine the number of ...

Modern, high-tech planters can produce “picket fence” stands of corn with seedlings so uniform they look like they’ve been photocopied. While pretty fields are without a doubt a source of ...

A corn plant knows how to find water in soil with the very tips of its roots, but some varieties, including many used for ...

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 ...

“Farmers will plant a range of different corn varieties,” Haag said. “Some can be harvested earlier than others.” Farmers in Kansas rely on two different types of corn: sweet and field cor ...

The dilution of plant and soil stable isotopic nitrogen ... a third source of nitrogen could help," Sible said. "Sometimes corn fields receive 'insurance nitrogen' where an extra 20 pounds is ...