Like most plants, corn growth progresses through three main phases: germination, vegetative, and reproductive stages. During germination, seeds break dormancy when soil temperatures exceed 50°F. They ...

The word “days” is often loosely added to corn hybrid relative maturity ratings, which can lead to the wrong interpretation as calendar days. Seed companies assign relative maturity ratings based ...

As your corn crop turns the last corner of the 2025 growing season and heads for the finish line and harvest, there is still a lot of potential yield to be made or lost in the process. The R5 growth ...

STEELE, N.D. — Nearing the end of what has been a cool growing season, farmers in much of North Dakota have been wondering if they'll run out of days to get their corn crop to maturity. But looking at ...

FARGO - Corn growth is behind schedule in North Dakota, according to Adnan Akyuz, North Dakota's state climatologist and assistant professor of climatology in North Dakota State University's Soil ...

Jill Murphy, North Dakota State University Extension agriculture and natural resources agent for Traill County, estimated that 2022 corn yields will be slightly above or slightly below the long-term ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Forty-five percent of Iowa corn acres have reached the dent stage and soybeans are just beginning to color, with nearly all, or 90%, of the crop already ...

When the time comes to monitor emergence and development, consider the role heat measurement standards called growing degree days (GDDs), or growing degree units, play in the process. People think in ...