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Nutrient balance and integrated management are keys to optimal corn yields
Cropping systems specialists from Kansas State University and Purdue University have completed a comprehensive review of corn research in the U.S. and worldwide over the past 100 years.
Transgenic sweet corn no more susceptible to Goss’s wilt disease
A new study from the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service provides evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.
Study shows corn gene provides resistance to multiple diseases
Researchers at North Carolina State University have found a specific gene in corn that appears to be associated with resistance to three important plant leaf diseases.
Kitty litter: Possible new use for spent corn grains
Kitty litter that’s nearly 100 percent biodegradable can be made by processing spent grains left over from corn ethanol production.
Historical patterns could be a good predictor of soybean and corn prices
Based on history, the odds of a cash corn price above $3 are about 18 percent.
Synthetic biology: Can corn learn how to fix nitrogen?
Is it possible to “teach” corn to fix its own nitrogen, thus eliminating the need for nitrogen fertilizer applications?
Dairy Channel: Year in review Manure, drought and no-till corn
Ernie Oelker reports on farm research involving liquid dairy manure as a nitrogen source for no-till corn.
Research shows subsurface drainage improves corn, soybean yields
COLUMBUS — For every $1 spent on drainage technology, producers get $3 to $4 back in corn and soybean profits, according to long-term Ohio State University research. Twenty-five years of field studies (from 1984 to 2009) at the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center Northwest Agricultural Research Station in Hoyvtille showed that subsurface drainage significantly
Early crop has sweet corn growers pickin’ and grinnin’
The southern Ohio crop is 10 days ahead of schedule, and two or three weeks earlier than the rest of the state.
Demand to determine post-harvest price pattern for corn and soybeans
URBANA, Ill. — It now appears that consumption of U.S. corn and soybeans will be record large in the 2009-10 marketing year, and that could help corn and soybean prices, according to University of Illinois economist Darrel Good. “The price users will be willing to pay for corn and soybeans will depend to a large
