Dr. Joe Lauer, UW-Madison Agronomy and UWEX state corn specialist, has added a new article to his blog. Below, find and excerpt and link to his website. >> The recent cool, wet weather has some …
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Evaluation of Ascend®: Hormones that stimulate corn root growth – Experiment 2
Joe Lauer, Corn Agronomist During good times and bad, but especially years with strong grain prices, numerous products appear on the market that seem too good to be true. Often these products come with wild …
State Crop Hybrid/Variety Trials: A Wealth of Information
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist Seed is one of the best ways to transfer technology to the farm-gate. Every year universities across the country conduct crop hybrid/variety evaluation programs. The purpose of these programs is …
2016 Wisconsin Corn Hybrid Performance Trials
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist Every year, the University of Wisconsin Extension-Madison and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences conduct a corn evaluation program, in cooperation with the Wisconsin Crop Improvement Association. The purpose of …
Early 2016 Corn Grain Yields Look Promising for Wisconsin
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist We have never had a year like 2016 for high grain yields in the UW Corn Performance Trials. Every location had yields above the 10-year average (see below). For example, …
What is happening in the corn plant during the month of October?
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist Corn For most of Wisconsin hybrids (~100 day), each plant typically develops 20-21 leaves, silks about 55-60 days after emergence, and matures about 120 days after emergence. All normal plants …
What is happening in the corn plant during the month of September?
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist Corn In mid-August, USDA-NASS made their initial corn yield projections for the 2016 season. However, September is really the month when we project how our farming skills and previous decisions …
Timing Corn Silage Harvest
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist Corn must be ensiled at the proper moisture to get fermentation for preservation. But, determining when to harvest corn at the right whole plant moisture is difficult. Each storage structure …
What is happening in the corn plant during the month of August?
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist By August two of three corn yield components, ear number and kernel number, have been determined. The final yield component, kernel weight, will largely be determined during the month of …
What is happening in the corn plant during the month of July?
Joe Lauer, Wisconsin Corn Agronomist The corn plant during July transitions from developing vegetative structures to reproductive structures. It is significant for yield in that two of the three components of yield are set up …