PENNSYLVANIA
MASTER
ORN GROWERS
ASSOCIATION
Dr. Greg Roth
;n State Agronomy
Associate Professor
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In the midseason, excessive
moisture was the problem for
many fields. Some fields in the
southcentral pan of the state
were saturated much of the time
in June and July. This resulted
in some stunted and yellow
com.
We would expect that com
growing in flooded or saturated
conditions might eventually
suffer from lack of oxygen in
Soil crusting caused by planting Into wet soils fol
lowed by hot May temperatures resulted In some
deformed seedlings such as this.
Facts prove that starch content is what makes corn the ideal animal feed. And that's
what makes CFS Waxy Com different from dent. CFS Waxy is 100% amylopectin
starch...zero percent amylose. (Dent is 25% amylose).
Amylopectin starch is more digestible. That means CFS Waxy maintains no less than
a 25% advantage over denL.in the feedlot or milking parlor.
On-farm tests show the average weight gain/feed efficiency in beef, sheep, swine and
other animals fed waxy corn increased up to 10% over dent fed animals.
In dairy herds CFS Waxy increased butterfat, protein and milk production.
And, CFS waxy can be produced as a cash crop...often bringing premium prices when
used for export.
Faster weight gain, more milk and flexibility...that's why CFS Waxy hybrids are more
than just corn.
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the root zone, root and crown
diseases, and N loss from the
soil due to both leaching and
denitrification.
Many times com in areas that
are saturated will not come
back and hot yield well. This
year, growers and dealers have
told me that many of these
fields turned green in August
and looked faiily good. In a few
of these fields that I examined,
ear development was less than
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ideal even though the crop
looked good from the road.
Fields that responded the
best appeared to be those that
followed alfalfa or were man
ured heavily. Com following
com and com following wheal
with borderline N fertility prog
rams had more of a tendency to
not green up as well.
We would expect these
responses based on the poten
tial for the mineralization of
organic N from these fields.
Later in the season, crop
maturity and leaf diseases took
center stage on the crop. This
year much of the crop seemed
to silk on time but the grain fill
period seemed to be lengthened
somewhat by the lack of high
temperatures in August.
In general, cool temperatures
are good for avoiding high
temperature stress in the crop
and improving grain fill, but not
for spewing along crop maturi
ty. As a result, most of the crop
was a bit later than normal but
on the whole matured well
enough to avoid much effect of
frost on grain quality.
In some of the short season
areas and where com was
planted late, though, there will
be some immature com that
gets killed by frost.
Leaf diseases were a con
stant threat throughout the sea
son and many of us were con
cerned even in late July with all
of the foggy mornings that we
had about severe disease out
breaks. Late in the season, gray
leaf spot became severe in
some areas, but for the most
part the disease developed
above the ear after the com was
dented, so the effects on yield
should be generally small.
Effects on standabilty of this
later season epidemic may be
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significant so some preharvest
scouting is warranted. -
Even with the challenges that
occurred during the season for
some fields, overall the crop
benefited from the ample preci
pitation throughout the season.
Many of the well-drained and
traditionally droughty soils
have exceptional crops this
year, which will make up for
some of the problems that were
encountered.
'This year, producers who
100 Million Bushels
For New Uses
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The
National Com Development
Foundation and the National
Com Growers Association
possesses an aggressive re
search and marketing strategy
to find the most cost effective
methods of discovering new
uses for com.
“We evaluate projects based
on the overall potential for
commercial and technical suc
cess, the potential impact on
com usage, the length of time
to commercialization, and
overall total cost,” said NCDF
President Everett Nordine, a
farmer from Albert City, lowa.
Russ Williams, chairman of
NCGA’s research and com
mercialization committee and
Leaf River, 111., farmer, said
each one of the organization’s
projects have the potential to
use more than 100 million
bushels of com each year.
NCGA/NCDF’s research
projects:
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had a com management prog
rams that have the ability to
produce under a variety of con
ditions will benefit die most
from the good season we had.
Key components of this year’s
program would be: 1) being
prepared and equipped to plant
as early as possible, 2) having a
N fertility program that was on
target for the situation, and 3)
selecting a hybrid that had good
disease resistance and high
yield potential.
• Commercialize 100-per
cent biodegradable plastics
using polylactic acid from
com.
• Catlytic conversion of glu
cose from com to make certain
polyols that are used as anti
freeze, pharmaceuticals, and
cosmetics.
• Identify a more cost effi
cient process of making buta
nol from com. Manufacturers
use butanol in such things as
lacquers and brake fluid. Buta
nol is largely produced now
from petroleum.
• Reduce the cost of ethanol
by converting com fiber to
ethanol.
• Seek $162 million from the
federal government for five to
10 years to identify the genes
of com. With this information,
solutions may be found to
long-standing constraints on
the com industry, such as sec
ond generation com borer, com
rootworm, and grain quality at
harvest.
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