With planting season right around the corner, David Hula and Randy Dowdy challenge farmers to reevaluate the ‘why’ behind their crop production practices and use real information to back up their ...

On young corn plants, leaves provide energy to the growing plant to develop new leaves ... Counting downward-pointing tips The other staging method counts all leaves with tips of the leaves pointing ...

Farm Journal Agronomists Ken Ferrie and Missy Bauer provide the following agronomic tips and reminders to ... amount of nitrogen required to grow your 2011 corn crop. Plan on surface-applying ...

When Michael Kotutwa Johnson goes out to the acreage behind his stone house to harvest his corn, his fields look vastly different ... In the era of climate change, the practice of dry farming is met ...

As harvest wraps up, thoughts of the 2021 growing season are quickly pushed aside in preparation ... Consider management practices that have higher disease risk potential, such as continuous corn ...

Alternatively, if you forgot to grow plants earlier, you can still grow corn by planting seeds directly into the soil in late spring and early summer. Use a dibber to make 2.5cm holes and sow two ...

The critical period for avoiding stress in corn is during the two weeks before and after tassel ... and will likely be the main result of dry conditions. This causes the ear tips to lose kernels, but ...

Candy corn vine is easy enough to grow for a beginning gardener — and even for a gardener with decades of experience, it offers plenty of interest. Plant it in full sun to partial shade ...

Angie Setzer of Consus Ag Consulting provided market updates and tips for farmers during Corn-Soybean Day Friday at Founder’s ...