Prioritize timing and placement to ensure young corn plants have access to enough N to withstand any disruption from ...

Corn growth and development are strongly influenced by environmental temperatures. Corn develops more rapidly in warmer ...

As your corn crop turns the last corner of the 2025 growing season and heads for the finish line and harvest, there is still a lot of potential yield to be made or lost in the process. The R5 growth ...

Corn over wheat. Like most of the Midwest, Iowa was settled by farmers moving west, growing what they knew best — until they ...

Corn growing in the Irene Rose Sohn Zegar Memorial Greenhouse on the top floor of NYU’s Center for Genomics and Systems Biology. New York University scientists are using artificial intelligence to ...

Corn is frost-sensitive, so spring planting is ideal.

A few pests can create problems for corn growers. Crows and other birds may peck the ground and steal the seeds before or as they germinate. Use a row cover secured with pins, soil, or rocks to ...

Join us on an intriguing journey as we explore the unique challenges and surprises of growing corn in winter. Discover how cold temperatures affect growth, the techniques used to manage these ...

Hybridization of other crops followed suit, including canola, rice, sorghum, sunflowers and wheat. Soybean remains an exception because its pollen shed occurs within a closed flower, making ...