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The production of corn (Zea mays mays, also known as "maize") plays a major role in the economy of the United States. The US is the largest corn producer in the world, with 96,000,000 acres (39,000,000 ha) of land reserved for corn production. Corn growth is dominated by west/north central Iowa and east central Illinois. Approximately 13% of ...
Among the major field crops, oats, wheat, and rye are sown, grasses and legumes are seeded and maize and soybeans are planted. In planting, wider rows (generally 75 cm (30 in) or more) are used, and the intent is to have precise; even spacing between individual seeds in the row, various mechanisms have been devised to count out individual seeds at exact intervals.
The Agronomy Barn Seed House, located on the Agronomy Research Station of Oklahoma State University, was built in 1934. It is a brick, concrete, frame barn, measuring 108 feet long, 44 feet wide, and 37 feet 9 inches high, and is distinguished by a large gambrel roof. The ground floor as well as the loft is concrete. In design it is very ...
The no-till stale seed bed method involves covering the soil with plastic or silage tarps. There are two basic strategies: soil solarization and soil occultation. With soil solarization, the seed bed is covered with a clear plastic sheet which heats the soil to a temperature that kills pests, pathogens, and weeds.
Not only are Iowans sweating in this heat, but the corn stalks are too. Iowa has seen temperatures in the 90s with heat indices of over 100 degrees — and corn sweat is contributing to the humidity.
The corn variety was created in the 1980s by Carl Leon Barnes (June 18, 1928 – April 16, 2016), an Oklahoma native also known by the moniker "White Eagle." Barnes is often reported as being "half Cherokee, half Scotch-Irish" but US census records do not support that he had any recent Native American ancestry. [1]
A planter is a farm implement, usually towed behind a tractor, that sows (plants) seeds in rows throughout a field. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is connected to the tractor with a drawbar or a three-point hitch . Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows.
A seedbed of rice plants. A seedbed or seedling bed is the local soil environment in which seeds are planted. Often, it comprises not only the soil but also a specially prepared cold frame, hotbed or raised bed used to grow the seedlings in a controlled environment into larger young plants before transplanting them into a garden or field.