Corn Agronomy – by an agronomist, about corn

Kent Kohn, Thierno Diallo and Joe Lauer University of Wisconsin
Dec 21, 2023
Dec 21, 2023

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Hybrid selection is a key decision made by farmers and historically is important for delivering new technologies, pest resistance, and increased yield and profitability to the farm-gate.

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Kent Kohn, Thierno Diallo and Joe Lauer University of Wisconsin

This year marks the 51st year of corn-hybrid performance evaluation conducted by the Wisconsin Agronomy Department – now the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, the Wisconsin Crop Improvement Association and the seed industry. The first Wisconsin public corn-performance trials were conducted by Elwood Brickbauer in 1973. In 1995 the corn-silage-hybrid evaluation program was initiated.

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Joe Lauer is an expert on corn production, transgenic crops and cropping systems in the Midwest. He’s a professor of agronomy in the University of Wisconsin-College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, and member of the American Society of Agronomy and the Crop Science Society of America. Email jglauer@wisc.edu to reach him.

Thierno Diallo is a member of the agronomy and corn-evaluation staff; Kent Kohn is research-support staff, both at the University of Wisconsin.