Oct. 7, 2022 • If ears remain upright and husks are tight, ears tend to hold more moisture, and it provides a more favorable environment for ear molds to develop.

Corn stage by stage

Oct. 1, 2019 | Descriptions of corn stages: silking (R1), blister (R2), milk (R3), dough (R4), dent (R5), physiological maturity/black layer (R6).

Connie JeffriesOctober 1, 2019corn stages, corn, black layer, dent stage, corn moisture, dough stage

Expect to harvest high-moisture corn

August 7, 2019 | Walking through dark green corn with tassels and silks coming out, Dave Nanda, SGD director of genetics, determined that this year’s Corn Watch ’19 field in central Indiana looked like good corn