By the V6, or six-collar stage of corn (about 24-30 days after emergence – 475 GDU) all plant structures have ... June is the time to apply nitrogen (up to V8) before rapid uptake period in ...

And it varies As shown in the graph on page 14, right after emergence, corn takes up only a very small amount of nitrogen. By the time a plant reaches the V5 growth stage (five leaf collars ...

Longer, more diverse rotations of crops fertilized with livestock manure have many environmental benefits, but carbon ...

Rates for nitrogen fertilizers fall-applied ahead of corn need to be 3 to 10 percent higher than spring pre-plant applications to realize comparable ... into the whorls of the leaves will cause salt ...

(WCIA) — New research from the University of Illinois shows that corn can ... The goal of nitrogen management is making sure that the nitrogen in the root zone is in “plant available ...

In collaboration with professors at the University, researchers are working on a new nitrogen-retaining corn breed.

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study testing a gene-edited bacterial inoculant found it supplied up to 35 pounds of nitrogen to corn during ... nitrogen into plant-available forms.

Nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium get all of the publicity, but if there was an Academy Award for crop nutrients, sulfur would win best supporting actor. “A bushel of corn removes 0.08 lb.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported that as of May 27, 92 percent of the Minnesota corn crop had emerged, a day behind last year, but 13 days ahead of the five-year average. Corn ...

Field trials on nitrogen-fixing microbes in corn have yet to show reliable yield benefits, but work continues on their ...

If corn was ever jealous of soybean's relationship ... that can turn atmospheric nitrogen into plant-available forms. The edited versions boost the activity of a key gene involved in nitrogen ...