Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

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 ...

Now is a good time to go back and look at those early planted emerged corn fields for potential insect damage according to Bruce Potter, University of Minnesota integrated pest management ...

Nutrient stratification, Calmer defines, is an uneven level of nutrients present at various depths within the soil profile. The long-time, no-till corn and soybean grower confirmed the problem on ...

supplementing the soil and fertilizer supply. The analysis showed that, across all nitrogen fertilizer rates, the inoculant increased corn vegetative growth, nitrogen accumulation, kernel number ...

Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig is encouraging Iowa corn growers to leverage the new ... Data inputs include field location, weather, residual soil nitrogen, estimated planting dates ...

Perhaps a nitrogen-fixing inoculant can reduce the need for those extra 20 pounds, and this could have a large impact when summed across all Corn Belt acres.” The study, “Soil inoculation with ...