2012 Brown Mid - Rib Corn Variety Trial

2013 Brown Mid - Rib Corn Variety Trial

Brown Mid-rib and Photoperiod-Sensitive Forage Sorghums

Hay and silage crops are integral parts of beef production in the Great Plains. In the southern Great Plains, a growing dairy industry is adding demand for silage and hay. Corn silage has long served the region well, producing consistent high quality silage. However, many areas of the southern Great Plains no longer have the irrigation capacity to successfully produce corn silage. Forage sorghu...

On-farm Corn Rootworm Trials

Methods Eight CRW trials were conducted in Lyon, Sioux, Clay, Monona, Crawford, and Hancock counties in 2013 (Table 1). Some trials compared a CRW-Bt hybrid with and without an insecticide, and others also included a non-Bt hybrid with and without an insecticide (Table 2). In Trials 1, 3, and 7, Pioneer Herculex® hybrids were used. A non-Bt Pioneer hybrid (987HR) was included in Trial 7. In Tri...

Corn silage hybrid effects on intake, digestion, and milk production by dairy cows.

Three corn hybrids harvested as whole-plant silage were evaluated in three separate feeding trials with lactating dairy cows. In trial 1, 24 multiparous Holstein cows were used in a replicated 4 x 4 Latin square with 28-d periods. Treatments were conventional (Pioneer 3563) and leafy (Mycogen TMF 106) corn silage hybrids, each planted at low (59,000 plants/ha) and high (79,000 plants/ha) plant ...

Biochemical Studies of Rib Discoloration and Pink Rib of Lettuce

The resulting injury to specific cells of the leaves releases the contents of the vacuoles, allowing intermixing with enzymes associated with other cell structures. Phenol oxidase is such an enzyme and causes the oxidation of various polyphenols (tannin -like substances) normally found in the cell vacuole. Oxidation of polyphenols, followed by vaguely understood polymerization reactions, result...