Articles Tagged with ''Corn''

USDA Reports 91% of Soybeans Emerged in the U.S.

June 21, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

According to the report, 91% of soybeans have emerged, above the 86% reported emerged in the same week last year. The 5-year average for soybean emergence in this week was 85%.

USDA Reports 96% of Corn Emerged in the U.S.

June 14, 2021 | Posted in Seeding Practices

According to the latest Crop Progress report from USDA, some 96% of corn was reported emerged, above both the 94% emerged last year and the 90% emerged in the week prior. The 5-year average emergence rate for this week was 91%.

Cover Crop Strategies to Improve Nitrogen Cycling in Corn

August 19, 2019 | Posted in Soil Health

Source: University of Minnesota Extension

Balancing the supply and demand of nitrogen (N) in crop production is challenging. In most cases, application of N fertilizer is needed to ensure that adequate N is available to corn. Nitrogen that is not taken up by plants can be lost from cropping systems as nitrate through leaching or runoff, according to this article from the University of Minnesota Extension.

Understanding Allelopathy with Cereal Rye when Planting Corn

April 23, 2019 | Posted in Seeding Practices, Soil Health

Many grower avoid planting corn into fields where cereal rye has been seeded over fears that allelopathic issues from decomposing rye will stunt corn growth and ding yields. But Steve Groff believes allelopathy is often mis-diagnosed and yellow corn could be related to other management issues.

March 2017 Poll: Yield Increase from Cover Crops

February 17, 2017 | Posted in Economics

Do you believe you’ve seen a yield increase from using cover crops on your no-till operation, and if so, how much?

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Hairy Vetch, Triticale & Other Alternatives to Cereal Rye

This week we’re going to hear from USDA research agronomist Jose Franco as he discusses alternatives to only using cereal rye as a winter cover crop in the Upper Midwest. Some of these alternatives include triticale, hairy vetch and winter camelina. Here’s what Franco and his team of researchers are looking for with those trials.

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