Thank you to all those who participated in County Standardized Trials this year. Our corn data is in and reported below.
For more information or assistance with the CST program, please contact your local County Extension office.
Medium Maturity 114-116 day RM
These CST plots are large strip trials located ‘on-farm’ with a minimum of 300 feet in length. Inputs and management decisions are on a by location basis and determined by the cooperating producers. Three relative maturity groups divide the trials, Early Corn will be 113 day and earlier, Medium Corn will be 114-116 day, and Full Corn is 117 day plus. Thank you to everyone involved in the CST program for your support and contributions: County Agents, UT Extension/Research, Growers, Industry, Retail.
Soybean and Cotton CST trials to follow. Visit search.utcrops.com for all variety testing data.
We are close to the end but a few still have acres left to defoliate. Others are considering applying another application to remove small amounts of leaf. Generally, most all of the harvestable bolls are open. Yields are off, in many areas considerably more than expected. At this point, we need to consider what we have in the field and what we might gain from another defoliation application. Most acres loosely break out to either 1,000+ lb per acre or far less than 1,000 lb per acre. The approach on these fields should generally be different. In this blog, I make a few comments and give a couple of examples of the best approach to wrap up 2025.
