Some farmers may notice that their corn ears are exhibiting “nosing back” symptoms. This condition, also referred to as “tip-back” or “tipping back”, is not unusual. Tip dieback is ...

25, 2021 5:00 p.m. Ideal growing conditions this summer left John and Sam Greenawalt up to their ears in excess sweet corn on their Sewickley Township farm. That overabundance now is a windfall ...

Corn yield results not from the number of ... “We often speak of picket-fence stands and photocopied ears,” says Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie. “Picket-fence stands result from ...

Corn stalks are cut and dried out in the field for 15 to 20 days before ears are picked off, manually unhusked, completely de-kerneled with passed down tools, and sorted by kernel size to be sold.