“Ripe ears on a green stalk” was the advertising line of a seed-corn company some years ago. I think every farmer who wants to harvest corn for grain likes to see that because it means the plant was able to be physiologically mature before frost. It also allows the maximum amount of the hybrid's potential yield.
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Wade Bulman owns and operates a small farm of 236 acres in the west-central Driftless Area Region of western Wisconsin. He primarily grows cash-grain crops, but has a small cow-calf herd and finishes his steers.





