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June 16, 2015 By karalynn

Why Do Some NNY Cornfields Exceed Expectations?

Ketterings2014cornfield722NNYADP Farm Research Evaluating Why Some Corn Fields Exceed Yield Expectations

With research in the past 10 years showing notable exceptions in how well predictions of corn yield potential matched actual yields on North Country farms, the farmers of the Northern New York Agricultural Development Program wanted to learn more about the factors influencing the beyond-expectations success.

For science-based, real-time, on-farm data, the NNYADP provided grant funding to Dr. Quirine M. Ketterings, director of the Cornell University Nutrient Management Spear Program, NMSP, for evaluation of corn yield and nitrogen management in 2013-2015.

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