Diseases cause worry ahead of corn planting season among t hose are Tar Spot, Southern Rust and Corn Stunt, as Tim Unruh ...

Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) is a destructive pest native to tropical and subtropical regions ...

When the corn begins to show tassels (strands at the top of the plant), wind blows the pollen from the tassels to the silks of the just-forming ears. That’s why it’s best to plant the corn in ...

If brown stink bugs are going to cause problems, they really need to be hit just before tassel push. About a third of folks ... Walk into the field, about 5 rows and look at the stems of 100 corn ...

An aerial view of Indiana’s corn crop this year shows lush green fields ... then we’re going to lose some of that weight in that that ear,” says Telenko. Tar spot starts in the leaf, and ...

The physical structure of corn plants - including the angle of leaves bending from the stem and the number of pollen-laden tassel branches - makes a big difference for yield. Compact plants can be ...

Japanese beetle populations have been growing in Missouri since 1999. They feed on corn tassels to reduce ear fill, pollination and yields. They skeletonize soybean leaves and feed on fruit trees and ...

At this stage, nitrogen demand is primarily concentrated in ear development and grain formation ... effectively be used for the inversion of corn’s biophysical and biochemical parameters. (3) During ...

Setting up your planter before planting season begins correlates strongly with corn ear count in the field down the road, Farm Journal associate field agronomist Missy Bauer tells viewers in ...

NAPERVILLE, Illinois, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Whenever speculators build sizably bullish views in Chicago corn, they are not usually in a hurry to completely erase them. In the week ended February 18 ...