Oct. 11, 2023 • “We found 34 to 36 kernels per row in ’22, but we found 40 to 42 kernels per row this year,” Nanda said. That’s a 15 percent increase, which translates into 15 percent more kernels per ear in ’23.”
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May 25, 2021 • The #CornWatch21 field was planted April 25. Half the corn field was conventionally tilled following soybeans, and half was no-tilled into soybean stubble.
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May 23, 2021 • Consider sacrificing a few plants to see how root systems are developing. If root systems aren’t as robust as you’d like, now is the time to determine why.
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Oct. 27, 2020 | Some plants which emerged four days or more behind the first plants in the Corn Watch ‘20 field still produced decent ears. In a few cases, plants which emerged on time struggled. What we saw wasn’t as black-and-white as you might think.
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August 20, 2020 | A plant was struggling to exist in the Corn Watch ‘20 field. Its diameter was much smaller than the plant next to it, and it was several growth stages behind. Two days difference in emergence should not result in that kind of difference.
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June 1, 2020 | Ten consecutive rows in one planter pass of a 24-row planter were included in the Corn Watch ’20 emergence test.
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