High temperatures and insect damage to the silks are common causes of poor ear fill in sweet corn. Stress from high temperatures, overwatering, underwatering or poor plant nutrition can cause newly ...

While growing corn is relatively easy, ensuring that the ears are full of juicy kernels requires adequate pollination with a ...

PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — Robb Rynd and his brother grew up farming and wanted to do more of it outside their day jobs, so they went in together on what’s now a little over 200 acres of corn, soybeans, ...

When it gets really hot during the pollination phase, the plant sex in the cornfield is not so hot. Wahoo crop consultant Walker Luedtke knows what can happen when extreme heat gets in the way of the ...

Corn farmers are seeing high incidences of a specific mold in their fields this year after a season-long drought hindered the crop’s pollination. Smut, a gray, moldy growth on corn ears, is present in ...

From crude oil to coffee, sign up free for Barchart’s best-in-class commodity analysis. Does the 2025 US corn crop have a pollination problem? This seems to be the subject du jour with nearly every ag ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Weather conditions across the U.S. corn belt are expected to be ideal during the critical pollination period this month, but there is some uncertainty in August for the vital pod ...

Crop progress varies from state to state and from field to field depending on whether crops were planted early or late, received a lot of precipitation or too little and other factors. Talon Becker, a ...

Across several states, climate change is fueling conditions that make watching the corn grow a nail-biter for farmers. Factors like consistently high summer overnight temperatures and ...

At the Reints farm in Northeast Iowa corn yields have been running above last year but they left a lot of yield potential ...