A corn specialist at Purdue University says many farmers are seeing unusually long silks in corn this year.
Bob Nielsen says some farmers have reported silks that are 6-9 inches when they are typically about 3-4 inches.
“What that tells us is that there’s some kind of dysfunction in that pollination and some kind of a poor “nick” with the availability of pollen at the time that the silks are out,” he says.
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