This time of year is very common for herbicide applications to be made in both corn and soybeans. While scouting and spraying your crops, it is important to properly identify…
Tag: Grain Corn
Seedbed and Corn Stand Evaluations
Before we let corn planter performance and early corn stands get too far into the rearview mirror, here are a few observations from Spring 2016. 1. Residue Management High residue…
Critical Management Period for Corn
You are in the process of planting your highest yielding corn crop. How high can you aim for? Hopefully the most important rule of planting corn was obeyed – plant…
The Hot, Dry Season Strategy
There are some reasonably credible weather predictions that 2016 may be warmer and drier than usual. Is it reasonable to consider some strategies that could capitalize on opportunities or mitigate…
Late Nitrogen Insights
There is unprecedented interest and investment in applying nitrogen on corn later in the season. By later, we mean applications that are beyond the traditional planting or sidedress timings and…
Yield Loss at Harvest
As the 2015 corn harvest begins, it is a great time to remind ourselves of the optimum harvest conditions and where harvest losses could occur around the combine. Harvest timing…
Considerations on rescue nitrogen
High clearance equipment has expanded the possibilities for applying nitrogen right up to tassel time, especially in fields or parts of fields where N deficiencies are apparent. Here are a…
Assessing Frost Damaged Corn and Soybeans – May 26, 2015
Key Considerations for Corn (See pictures to the right) Key Considerations for Soybeans (See pictures to the right) For further information, contact your Maizex representative. Greg Stewart, Maizex Agronomy Lead…
Importance of Corn Flowering Date Diversity
Corn pollination can easily be considered one of the most important periods of crop development. For a corn farmer, this time period of crop development and reproduction is what ultimately…
Do you know your corn’s resume?
How much do you know about current hybrids that you have purchased? The Ontario Corn Committee announced last week that starting in 2015, they will run public management trials with…