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Corn Management Decisions During Drought Depend Upon Pollination Success

UW-Extension corn specialist Joe Lauer provides information to corn farmers in the southern four tiers of counties in Wisconsin who might have to make the best of a bad situation. Here is the full...

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Harvesting Barren and Poorly Pollinated Corn

Poor corn pollination can be caused by numerous factors including drought, hail, frost, corn rootworm silk feeding, and foliar diseases. Often poorly pollinated corn can be utilized by livestock...

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Nitrate Toxicity Issues in Barren Corn

The risk of nitrate poisoning increases as pollination becomes poorer. Nitrate problems are often related to concentration (i.e. the greater the yield the less chance of high nitrate concentration in...

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Pricing Drought Stressed Corn Silage

Arriving at a fair and equitable price for corn silage is difficult due to the number of factors involved that are dynamic and biologically variable. Some factors include production costs, grain price,...

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Options for Double-Cropping Barren Corn

The optimum crop to plant in an emergency forage situation should be determined by 1) when and how it will be utilized, 2) the forage quality needed, and 3) seed availability and cost (Undersander,...

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Corn Pollination: How to determine success under stress (video)

Dr. Joe Lauer, University of Wisconsin Corn Agronomist, takes you into the field to show you how to determine when pollination has occurred using the ear-shake test. He also talks about how important...

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Will we have enough corn?

Many questions about the impact of the drought on corn production from this year’s crop are coming in to UW-Extension corn specialist Joe Lauer. He says it is still too early to predict the success of...

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What Worked, What Didn’t Work During the Drought of 1988?

As we begin to evaluate the success of corn pollination during the 2012 drought, it might be useful to also evaluate which management decisions were most beneficial during this growing season. Although...

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Forage harvests and re-crop considerations following these drought conditions

Due to the drought conditions, some growers are considering harvesting their corn and/or soybean crops earlier than normal as a forage this year, and furthermore some are considering planting a second...

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Wisconsin Farmers Need to Be Aware When Buying Out-of-State Corn

Wisconsin’s DATCP cautions farmers buying whole-kernel corn from any of the six states with FDA aflatoxin blending waivers need to take precautions to avoid feeding livestock corn with dangerous levels...

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