ST. PAUL - Significant populations of volunteer corn have been reported in some fields this year. Strong winds that blew corn down last fall just prior to harvest likely contributed to the increase.

Continuous corn is common practice, but it is not without challenges. It is critical to avoid becoming complacent with corn-on-corn management. Learning what the challenges are and how to mitigate ...

A recent study conducted by Miner Institute’s Marcos Marcondes evaluated whether reconstituted finely ground corn could serve ...

You can’t construct a strong building on a weak foundation, and you can’t grow a great corn crop on a weak root system. From freezing temperatures to voracious underground pests and other threats, ...

The end-of-season corn stalk nitrate test (CSNT) is a simple, inexpensive tool that can be used to assess the nitrogen (N) status of a corn crop at the end of the growing season. Data from studies ...

Sweet corn is one of the few crops for which insect pests drive most of the pest management program. A number of caterpillar pests attack sweet corn, infesting ears and rendering the ear and the whole ...

I was a deprived child, as are all who, by unjust fate, do not grow up where the tall corn grows. In New York, sweet corn came in cans. The occasional ear that showed up on my dinner plate was a ...

A recent study from the Illinois Crop Physiology Laboratory, led by Fred Below, a U of I crop physiologist, provides the first estimate of the corn yield gap for the U.S. Corn Belt. In order to ...

Western and northern corn rootworm remain the Midwest’s most economically damaging insect pests in corn production, and their impact is growing as resistance undermines once reliable control tools.

Revised Document Prepared by: A.L. Shober, K.L. Gartley, and J.T. Sims Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware Unlike other nutrients, such as potassium or phosphorus, the ...

Recently, Purdue experts updated their applied research findings on nitrogen management guidelines for corn in Indiana. The report summarizes corn yield response to fertilizer nitrogen (N) rate in ...