Our first significant heat wave hit Indiana this week with the added benefit of high humidity.
Our first significant heat wave hit Indiana this week with the added benefit of high humidity.
This half-day event will highlight grain and fiber research trials, processing demonstrations, and novel applications of hemp.
Corn growth stages are quite variable across Indiana but several areas with early planted corn are reaching tassel.
Many areas of Indiana experienced excessive rainfall from mid-May through late June (Figure 1), with some locations receiving more than 10–15 inches of rain between May 31 and June 29.
The phrase is an old folk proverb that entered the written record gradually in the mid-1800s. The phrase has a historical agronomic basis, it’s just not relevant today. Public interest in the phrase can be filed under the category: “Perennial Folksy Questions About Corn That News Media Like to Write About”. If I had a penny for every time someone asked me about the popular Corn Belt adage “Knee-high by the Fourth of July” over the 40+ years I spent as Purdue’s Extension Corn Specialist, I would have a lot of pennies and no where to spend them in today’s economy. The news media especially love to publish folksy articles this time of year on this well-known “metric” of growing corn and have been doing so for well over one hundred years. The most rigorous tracing of the origin of the phrase (etymologist Barry Popik’s 2012 article) finds the saying[Read More…]
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