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Tom J. Bechman
SLOW PROGRESS: Yes, it’s a colorful scene these 24 corn rows in 1/1,000 acre are emerging in the Corn Watch ’21 field. Colorful isn’t always a good thing, though. It means there was a wide range in emergence time. Corn Watch: Corn planted on April 24 emerges, albeit slowly.
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Jun 15, 2021 to Jun 17, 2021
Brightly colored flags with green, white, red and blue markings flapping in the breeze are a cool sight if you’re watching the Indianapolis 500 race. They’re not such an encouraging sight when they are tiny flags attached to wires, each one stuck in the soil by a corn plant. The different color patterns represent when various plants emerged. The more variation in color, the longer it took some plants to emerge, and the less uniformity in emergence.
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What will you see when you begin scouting corn as it grows this season? Weather conditions and when you were able to plant will play a large role in what you might find as you begin walking your own cornfields.
Dave Nanda, director of genetics for Seed Genetics Direct, has encountered lots of different situations while walking cornfields during his long career. For the past several years, he has scouted the Corn Watch program field, which is a Farm Progress project sponsored by Seed Genetics Direct.
The purpose of Corn Watch is to follow a field in the eastern Corn Belt from planting to harvest and see how it develops, Nanda says. Some of the things that Nanda spots in this commercial cornfield could be similar to what you are seeing in your fields. The goal is to help you home in on where to focus your attention as you scout, and to increase your knowledge base so you can make more informed management decisions, both this year and i
Tom J. Bechman
PICK UP THE PATTERN: Notice the odd pattern of shorter, lighter-colored plants that runs diagonally but flips direction at the midpoint of this cornfield. Corn Watch: Tissue testing can help compare regular and affected plants.
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The pattern was obvious in a cornfield Dave Nanda spotted on the way to look at the Corn Watch field in 2020. It was confusing, yet obvious. It begged for a follow-up.
What made this pattern unusual was that it reversed itself halfway through the field, Nanda says. He is director of genetics for Seed Genetics Direct, sponsor of Corn Watch ’21, and the main consultant who observes the Corn Watch field. The goal is to learn things through observations in the Corn Watch field that help you make more informed decisions on your fields.
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