But instead of counting the days, look for these signs: Most sweet corn varieties produce one to two ears per plant ... To harvest, hold the stalk in your non-dominant hand to steady it.

Initial symptoms of stalk rots are noticed by premature wilting and ear drop (Figure 1). As the disease progresses stalks senesce rapidly and turn brown to gray. Figure 1. Symptoms of stalk rots in ...

Corn stalks should be sampled at least one week after black layers have formed on about 80% of the kernels of most ears. Sampling can be performed up to harvest ... The amounts of N in corn stalks are ...

because the tassel — the top of the corn stalk — has about 90,000 pollen spores, Nagle said. Each one of those must link up to a silk — the fine “hair” in an ear of corn — in order to ...