Nutrient Distribution Between the Different Corn Crop Components, Corn Residue, Cob and Grain in the Northern Corn Belt

Corn Cob Residue Carbon and Nutrient Dynamicsduring Decomposition

Warming Nighttime Temperatures and Crop Health in the Corn Belt

Over the last century nighttime minimum temperatures have been increasing at a faster rate than daily maximum temperatures. This warming trend has caught the attention of climatologists and agricultural scientists as they attempt to address the potential effects of elevated nighttime minimum temperatures on the health of these crops, which are so important to the U.S. economy. In this study, te...

Nitrogen use and carbon sequestered by corn rotations in the northern corn belt, U.S.

Diversified crop rotation may improve production efficiency, reduce fertilizer nitrogen (N) requirements for corn (Zea mays L.), and increase soil carbon (C) storage. Objectives were to determine effect of rotation and fertilizer N on soil C sequestration and N use. An experiment was started in 1990 on a Barnes clay loam (U.S. soil taxonomy: fine-loamy, mixed, superactive, frigid Calcic Hapludo...

There Is More to Corn than Popcorn and Corn on the Cob!

NutriDense corn grain and corn silage for dairy cows.

Twenty multiparous Holstein cows, 4 of them surgically fitted with ruminal cannulas, were used in a replicated 4 x 4 Latin square to compare the effects of whole-plant silage and grain produced from NutriDense (ND), leafy NutriDense (LND), or a conventional yellow dent (YD) hybrid on ruminal fermentation, total tract nutrient digestibility, and performance of lactating dairy cows. On a DM basis...