A Thumb-area farmer says planting conditions have been variable at times over the past few weeks. Elkton’s Jeff Krohn tells ...

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 ...

May 5th, 2025 by Jeffrey Christo MLB’s Dreamy Journey Needs a Comeback Picture this: MLB players in throwback uniforms, ...

Corn stalk nitrate-N concentrations can be divided into four categories ... we recommend that fertilizer and manure N rates should be increased on fields that test in the “low” range and decreased on ...

The tassel atop the stalk contains pollen ... There is popcorn and sweet corn, but ninety-nine percent is field corn, with 45 percent going into animal feed, 44 percent turned into ethanol ...

Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot of corn, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum graminicola, is a disease of worldwide importance. Yield losses can approach 40% and up to 80% lodging has been ...

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 ...

Scientists at Washington State University have found a new way to produce sugar from corn stalks and other crop waste, potentially opening a new pathway to sustainable biofuels. Newly published in ...

Scientists have found a new way to produce sugar from corn stalks and other crop waste, potentially opening a new pathway to sustainable biofuels. Scientists at Washington State University have ...