“They include silk cutters, such as adult corn rootworm beetles and Japanese beetles, as well as aphids, which interfere with tasseling and pollen drop,” Ferrie says. Most silk-clipping ...

Cobs of corn you buy for grilling must fulfill a handful of requirements to get a beautiful char without burning it. Here's ...

Figure 1. Corn plant in the 5-leaf growth stage. (Tip of Leaf 5 no longer points upward, so it is the "indicator Leaf.") In some situations (particularly as the plant nears tasseling), Leaf 1 may have ...

While tasseling corn is months away, buzz around the farm has been about late-season diseases. Perhaps the most painful of which has been tar spot, a relatively new disease with no solution ...

graminicola overwinters in corn residue on the surface of the field ... Continued spore production may result in disease spread up the plant after tasseling. If the plant is mechanically damaged (e.g.

“So depending if that corn was, you know, silken tasseling at the wrong time, those fields were probably impacted a little more than others, but I have other places that corn yields were ...