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3 days ago |
farmprogress.com | Tom Bechman
Fill up the water jug, put on comfortable shoes and grab your favorite summertime hat. It’s time to hit the cornfield to see what treasures are waiting!Hopefully, any surprises will be good, in terms of long ears with plump kernels that will add up to large yields this fall. Invariably, though, not everything you find in the field will be positive. Here is a look back through scouting over 10 years’ worth of Corn Watch fields.
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4 days ago |
farmprogress.com | Tom Bechman
No matter whether you planted early or battled the weather and just planted recently, getting corn to V6 was likely a struggle. The first hurdle is emergence; then comes the “ugly duckling phase” where corn looks as gangly as a newborn calf. Sooner or later, permanent roots take over, weather conditions improve, temperatures rise, and corn reaches V6. A rapid growth phase follows, signaling the race to the finish is on.
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5 days ago |
farmprogress.com | Tom Bechman
What happens in cornfields that yield over 250 bushels per acre that doesn’t happen in cornfields yielding under 150 bushels per acre? Mark Jeschke, agronomy manager for Pioneer, says a team of Corteva Agriscience researchers were determined to find out. They looked at measurements of plant biomass and nitrogen content from a series of experiments conducted by Corteva over a 13-year span, from 2011 through 2023.
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1 week ago |
farmprogress.com | Tom Bechman
If you plant soybeans on May 13, you don’t expect them to take over two weeks to emerge. You also don’t expect multiple rain events totaling 5 inches and several nights with lows in the 40s before emergence. Yet that’s what happened to the Soybean Watch ’25 field. What is less surprising is that after battling those conditions, the stand is less than perfect — far less in some places.
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1 week ago |
farmprogress.com | Tom Bechman
A story making national headlines centered on two Chinese nationals apprehended attempting to bring an agriculturally relevant fungus into the U.S. They were apprehended upon their arrival at Detroit Metro Airport. According to various news reports, one Chinese national was bringing the fungus to study in his girlfriend’s lab at the University of Michigan. National media likely picked up the story because of its cloak-and-dagger value.
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Lots of good stuff here for @IndianaFFA and @NationalFFA too.
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