A combine can harvest six acres of corn in about 45 minutes. It took a team of Monsanto employees nearly 100 days, working 10-12 hour shifts, because they were picking and shucking six acres worth of corn – about 120,000 ears – by hand!
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In 2005, with the cooperation of Monsanto Company, we evaluated corn rootworm larval injury to nine different YieldGard Rootworm (MON 863) hybrids and a non-Bt isoline (check) that were planted on April 29 (four-row plots, 45 ft long, four replicates) into a plot area that had been planted to a trap crop in 2004 (late-planted corn intercropped with pumpkins).
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C.O.R.N Newsletter

• Nitrogen Prices and Management
• Seed Decisions for 2006 – The Pathologists Perspective
• Lodging in Corn: Stalk vs. Root Lodging
• Sampling for Soybean Cyst Nematode (SCN)
• Plot Statistics Made Easy
• Preliminary CORN Survey Results on Soybean, Aphids and Weeds

First Year Western Corn Rootworm Sampling 2005
Curtis Young, Ron Hammond, Bruce Eisley
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In This issue
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The final results are in from every F.I.R.S.T region that Great Lakes Hybrids was entered in. The final results are below:
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Here’s the latest update on F.I.R.S.T. Summaries and other key locations that have been harvested in the past several days.
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