Corn

Corn Problems

Basic scouting guide

Diseases

• Field Corn Disease Scouting Calendar
• Managing Diseases of Corn
• Disease Management in Field Corn
• Corn Ear Rot - Identification and Management
• Economics of Corn Fungicides
• Identifying and Managing Goss's Wilt (Monsanto)

Herbicide Injury:

• Herbicide Injury Key
• Herbicide Injury Symptoms

Pests:

• Field Corn Insect Scouting Calendar
• Bird Damage
• Black Cutworm
• Brown Marmorated Stinkbug
• Corn Earworm
• Corn Rootworm
• Corn Rootworm Injury
• European Corn Borer
• Fall Army Worm
• Gray Garden Slug
• Potato Stem Borer
• Stalk Borer
• Western Bean Cutworm
• Wildlife Damage Management

Harvest, Yields & Storage

• Pricing standing corn
• Estimating Corn Grain and Silage Yields (Cornell U.)
• Grain Fill Stages in Corn (Purdue U.)
• Calculating Grain Weight Shrinkage Due to Mechanical Drying (U. Minnesota)
• Corn Grain Shrinkage Table

Storage

• Choosing Forage Storage Facilities
• Maximizing Forage Quality - Bunk Silos (Cornell U.)
• Bunker Silo Silage Density Calculator (U. Wisconsin)
• Sealing Strategies - Bunker Silos & Drive-over Piles (NRAES)
• Dry Grain Storage Tips (Cornell U.)
• Calculating Drying Costs

Production Techniques

Planting

• Com Planter Maintenance Checklist(Jeff Miller, CCE Oneida County)
• Corn Planting Techniques (Cornell Crop & Pest Management Guidelines)

Tillage

• Evaluation of Tillage Systems for Corn Production (Penn State Extension)
• Local Tillage Trial Results
• No-Till Planting Systems Manual(U. Missouri Extension)
• Planting Considerations for No-Till Corn (U. Nebraska Extension)

Variety Selection

Each year Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences conducts performance trials of corn hybrids in the fields and reports the results at harvest. Following are the trial results for corn silage and grain in recent years:

• New York Corn Silage Hybrid Test Results: 2021  , 2020 , 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016,  2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007
• New York Corn Grain Hybrid Test Results: 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007

Last updated January 11, 2024