In many cornfields this year, favorable growing conditions may have resulted in a larger number of potential kernels per row than normal. So even if corn ear tips ... from the stalk that gives ...

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.

Ear count, not just population, makes corn yield. The first step to more ears per field is stand and ear ... Crown roots should come off the stalk in a circular pattern, growing downward at ...

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 ... expressed as concentrations of nitrate-N in parts ...

Stalk rots are one of the most significant set of diseases on corn. These diseases are insidious, and often growers are unaware of their effects until harvest. Low levels of stalk rot occur in nearly ...

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 ...

remove old stalks from the garden after harvest. The corn earworm, which typically feeds on kernels near the tip of the ear, may have three generations per year. Turning the soil in the fall helps ...