July 31, 2008 Agronomy

Purdue: Late Planted Corn: Enough Time to Mature?

As Indiana’s corn crop enters the final stretch of the season, folks with late-planted corn are looking ahead on the calendar and wondering whether their fields will mature safely before the arrival of a killing fall freeze.

Technically, 97% of Indiana’s corn crop was planted as of June 15 (Fig. 1, USDA-NASS, 2008), but more than the usual number of acres were replanted later than that as a result of poor stand survival due to the June floods and field ponding events.

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