Corn development and final yields The number of harvestable kernels per ear is an important contributor to the grain-yield potential of a corn plant. Severe plant stress during ear formation may ...

Understanding soybean growth and development can help determine the best stages to maximize that potential. “Staging is important to track the development of plants. We can use crop stages to ...

Corn plants are determinate, meaning they have a fixed vegetative growth stage before tasseling and producing ears (reproductive stages). Some soybean varieties are also determinate and are primarily ...

The success of many of your soybean management ... the wrong stage, says Seth Naeve, University of Minnesota Extension agronomist. That is why it’s important to identify growth stages rather ...

AGRICULTURAL AND FARM NEWS Soybean pests have been hard to figure out in 2012. Some pressure was seen towards the end of July into August. Soybean pests, including soybean aphids and two-spotted ...

Vieira is the senior author of a study offering more insight into how soybean plants respond to flooding in the critical early reproductive stage when the plant begins to flower. The study, "Impact of ...