AgWeb

Gibberella Stalk Rot: Life Cycle, Symptoms and Control Strategies for Corn

Several different fungi cause stalk rot in corn across the U.S. Corn Belt, and gibberella stalk rot is among the most common forms. Stalk rot depresses yields some 5% each year, and it’s not unheard ...
University of Delaware

End-of-Season Corn Stalk Nitrate Testing to Optimize Nitrogen Management

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 ...
Star Tribune

In a big change to nation’s corn, you might soon see shorter stalks

As a teenager in a small Iowa town in the 1980s, I would join dozens of kids around this time of summer on crews at a Cargill research plot where we helped scientists control pollination of corn ...
AgWeb

Focus On Stalk Quality To Maximize Harvest Results

As Caleb Hamer evaluated his corn last weekend, he says the crop looked like it flipped a switch and decided it was done growing for the season. “Between the southern rust, some tar spot, and I think ...
The Gazette

‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate

Cameron Sorgenfrey walks among short corn stalks in one of his fields, Sept. 16, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Buy Photo WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in ...