Growing Corn (Maize) - Crop Quest

Gray Leaf Spot in Corn

Krissy Lampe — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 14:10:13 +0000

Gray Leaf Spot (GLS) is a fungal disease that can cause significant yield loss in corn when conditions are right. This disease develops rapidly under warm and humid conditions. GLS is more prevalent in the Midwest and the Eastern portions of the U.S., but it has established itself in the drier High Plains where, under [...]

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Avoiding Arrested Ear Syndrome

Krissy Lampe — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 15:28:46 +0000

Arrested ear development can occur if certain adjuvants are applied to corn during the vulnerable V12-14 growth stages. Arrested Ear Development or Syndrome is a physiological condition caused when certain stresses are present in corn during specific growth stages. While these conditions are not always predictable, there is one controllable management practice to [...]

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Optimal Growth Stage for Putting Up Quality Corn Silage

Corry Israel — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 21:24:54 +0000

Timing of your corn silage harvest is critical to maintain high quality feed and assure proper ensiling of that feed. The optimal moisture range to create good ensilage is between 65-70% when putting it in a bunker. So the question is at what growth stage does corn reach 65-70% moisture? It can depend on [...]

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Grower Focus: Take-Aways from Randy Dowdy

Tracy Smith — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 07:30:32 +0000

If you attended our Grower Focus event on February 7, you heard Randy Dowdy, National Corn and Soybean Yield Record Setter visit about the importance of timing and attention to detail. We had a large crowd join us at Grower Focus. We wanted to emphasize a few of the key points that Randy [...]

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Split Nitrogen Applications Are Evolving

Tracy Smith — Mon, 15 May 2017 08:00:51 +0000

Recently I was asked to contribute to an article Precision Ag Professional was putting together. The point of view from the corn belt on split nitrogen applications was interesting. I was a little surprised at the implied low number of split applications being made in the corn belt since this is a well-established practice under [...]

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Rotate Your Preplant – Preemerge Corn Herbicide Chemistry For Better Control

Tracy Smith — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:00:30 +0000

We all know the importance of mixing different modes of actions in post emerge herbicide programs. One area of corn herbicide management that is easy to neglect is to stay on a consistent rotation of early corn herbicides that are used preplant or preemerge. We are all creatures of habit and resist change. When we [...]

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Late Season Plant Health Gives Important Clues to Crop Management Decisions

Tracy Smith — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:00:29 +0000

As we head toward the back end of the growing season, there are many clues we can look at to determine whether some of our management decisions this year paid off. Of course, Mother Nature has a way of laying best laid plans to the side, but we can still learn something from what we [...]

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Prevent Spider Mites, Don’t Fight Them

Tracy Smith — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 08:00:45 +0000

Spider mites, both the Banks Grass Mite and the Two-Spotted Spider Mite, thrive in hot and dry climates. With this being said, corn producers in southwest Kansas can almost count on finding mites in the field year after year. However, after a summer where this region of the country has experienced extremely high amounts of [...]

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Are Seed Costs a Fixed Cost?

Tracy Smith — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 08:00:53 +0000

Many producers express frustration with the cost of seed. But not necessarily because of the actual cost of a bag of seed, but because regardless of yield goal, yield potential or length of maturity, the cost of the seed remains relatively the same. Unless you adjust population, a field that raises 180 bushel of corn [...]

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Corn Borer & Late Season Pest in Corn

Tracy Smith — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 08:00:43 +0000

It is that time of year again when it becomes necessary to treat the late season lepidoptera species that can infest your corn crop. The most predominant pests this time of year are normally the two species of corn borer. These worms bore into the ear or the stalk of corn plants causing economic [...]

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