“The reality is, we don’t really care if the corn is short or tall ... stalks have less lignin and, therefore, the head setting might need to be adjusted differently,” he says. Blomgren ...

Anthracnose leaf blight and stalk rot of corn, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum graminicola, is a disease of worldwide importance. Yield losses can approach 40% and up to 80% lodging has been ...

“Seeing how tall corn can grow comes down to internode length and quantity,” Karl explains—in other words, the number of leaves a stalk has and the distance between those leaves. He learned early on ...

As winter turned to spring, Wendell Meekins planted his corn crop and prepared for the stalks to shoot up tall and green, just as they ... tromped through the muddy field on Maryland’s Eastern ...