July 2006 Archives

Dale R. Hicks, University of Minnesota

Corn plants for most of Minnesota have been short of moisture or under high temperature stress for the past four weeks. Since most fields are past tasseling and silking, one can now determine the success of the pollination and fertilization process. The objective here is to describe a simple method to determine the fertilization success and to discuss the effect of stress on plant recovery and grain yield.

D.R. Hicks and P.R. Peterson
Agronomists, University of Minnesota

Corn that is drought stressed can be used for forage, either green chop or as silage. The purpose of this article is to address some of the questions that growers should consider when using drought-stressed corn.

Jochum Wiersma, Small Grains Specialist

In the past week, I have had several calls about wheat fields that showed severe 'disease' on the flag leaf. The symptoms were always described as a dying back of the flag leaf from the tip of the leaf downwards (Photo 1 and 2).