Corn is an easy crop to grow, but timing is key when it comes to harvesting it at the peak of sweetness. The cobs are ready to be harvested about 20 days after the silk appears. However, that is ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield ... which forces us to find ways to plant more acres while conditions are right,” Ferrie says. Other Field Clues If a plant leafed out ...

“Trying to pick this corn up will only lower their insurance check and destroy their combines and drive up drying costs,” says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. “Grain quality will ...

However, of the over 90 million acres of corn planted in the US, sweet corn makes up less than 1% of the total crop. The rest is starchy and dry field corn ... at the top—a sign that the ...

Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly every corn field in Delaware, and severity and incidence varies from year to year. Stalk rots can cause breakage and lodging of stalks and plant death. In many ...