In 2024, over 165 million bushels of corn were impacted by stalk rot diseases. Learn how to identify different corn stalk rots to dial in your management plan.

Q: Our corn plant recently produced the flower stalk in the photo. It's a sappy mess, but oddly attractive and fragrant. I had no idea they could flower.

Common stalk borer eggs typically begin to hatch at 575-degree days, according to Varenhorst. He says the caterpillars finish hatching and begin development on weeds and grasses at 750-degree days.

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds an ear of corn from a short corn stalk in his field, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Charlie Neibergall | AP) The short corn ...

A single stalk of corn is growing in front of a home — in the concrete — at the 5700 block of W. Silver Valley Drive near Dunham Park in western Sioux Falls.