In most fields, corn residue remaining after grain harvest is incorporated into the soil with tillage or is left on the soil surface. But corn residue is also becoming a commodity. It’s ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Corn farmers are collecting their harvest as summer transitions to fall with some fields looking a little more brown than green. Lucas Haag with the Kansas State University ...

Although field corn kernels start out soft like sweet corn, this variety is left to dry on the stalks in the field before harvesting in the fall once much of its sugar content has converted into ...

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield. The first step to more ears per field is stand and ear counts. Determine the causes of gaps, late-emerging plants and missing ears so you know how ...

Five major soil insects can be found in corn fields: seed corn maggot, white grubs, wireworms, cutworms and rootworms. Corn rootworm populations have increased in continuous corn production areas of ...

“Trying to pick up downed corn will only lower farmers’ insurance checks, destroy combines and drive up drying costs,” says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. Because corn went down ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “This is the first paper published showing offsite benefits to other host plants for a pest like the corn borer, which is a significant pest for ...