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Corn crop marks phenology

Jerry Davis For Agri-View
Aug 1, 2026
2 hrs ago

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A ghost plant has one flower but no chlorophyll and lives as a parasite on plant roots.

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An Amanita mushroom is one of many white organisms now appearing.

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Queen Anne’s lace blooms as a compound umbel of thousands of tiny florets.

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A deer eats the silk of a developing ear of field corn.

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A doe white-tailed deer escapes from eating in a cornfield.

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Wild blackberries are ripe and can be eaten fresh – or in jellies, wine or as juice.

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Jerry Davis For Agri-View

Sweet corn and field corn can be our clues of a long list of outdoor events on the horizon. Field corn is full of surprises, with ears and tassels concealing what they are until pollen begins drifting about – even before ragweed releases its culprits, which are something to sneeze about.

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Jerry Davis is a freelance outdoors writer. Contact him at sivadjam@mhtc.net or 608-924-1112 for more information.