SWEET CORN INSECTICIDE EFFICACY TRIAL, 2013.

Sweet Corn Variety and Pest Management Trial

Introduction Organic sweet corn can be successfully grown in Iowa, based on our agricultural resources and our extensive experience with field corn production. With the continuing growth of organic consumers in the U.S., premium prices can be obtained for organic sweet corn from Iowa. With the potential for major markets across the U.S. identified, research on production, harvesting and process...

2013 Brown Mid - Rib Corn Variety Trial

Processing of Sweet Corn

Sweet corn cobs constituting raw material for processing must be characterized by the highest quality of kernels. Kernel quality is defined not just by the chemical and sensory properties, but also by the mechanical parameters of kernels. This appears to fully justify joint consideration of all those properties. Sweet corn is probably a mutant of fodder corn (Orłowski, 2000). Significant differ...

Improvement of Sweet Corn

L HE only genetic difference between the composition of a sweet corn kernel and that of field corn is due to a single recessive gene out of the hundreds or thousands of genes in corn. This gene makes the sugary condition of the kernel persist in sweet corn; or, in other words, prevents the conversion of some of the sugar into starch. The first recorded observation of sweet corn by w^hite men ap...

Risk and the Value of Additional Insecticide Applications for European Corn Borer Control in Processing Sweet Corn

This analysis uses data from field evaluations of pyrethroid insecticides to estimate the uncertainty (risk) and expected value of additional insecticide applications and IPM to control European corn borer larvae in processing sweet corn. Preliminary empirical results indicate that IPM can increase expected returns around $5-$9/ac and reduce the risk (variability) of net returns.