Correct staging is necessary for understanding scout and handle corn, whether or not for timing fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide or fungicide functions.
It’s additionally vital for understanding plant growth, and the way stressors at completely different levels can have an effect on outcomes, together with yield, cob measurement, and kernel weight.
However the issue is there are a number of methods to measure corn’s progress levels, and product labels don’t all the time use the identical methodology.
For instance, there’s the V-staging or leaf collar methodology, the leaf-over methodology, the leaf tip methodology, and sure, some herbicide labels nonetheless confer with plant peak for staging.
Renate Jochum of PRIDE Seeds makes her Corn College debut on this sensible episode, becoming a member of Jeanette Gaultier of BASF and RealAg’s Kelvin Heppner to reveal every methodology, precisely assess which stage a corn crop is at, and the professionals and cons of every strategy to staging:
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