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 ...

And it is not the ears of corn themselves that are sweating, said University of Minnesota field crops educator David Nicholai at Kare11, it is "water movement coming out of the soil, going up ...

AGRICULTURAL AND FARM NEWS Minnesota farmers made significant planting progress during the week ending May 19, according to the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. Several continuous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...