By Dave Nanda
Delta Farm Press
We could have a record corn crop in 2021! At least it looks that way in the eastern Corn Belt. Corn plants in many fields added a couple of extra rows per ear and even added a second ear. Plants were busy making as many progenies as possible.
Timely rains during the same period made certain that kernel depth and test weight improvement further added to already high potential yields. However, conditions that were favorable for crop growth also were conducive to development of fungal leaf diseases such as northern corn leaf blight and gray leaf spot.