In episode 4 of season 2 Corn College TV, Ken Ferrie is asked what farmers should consider if they are thinking of a switch to narrow row corn. “First, a farmer needs to know if they have maximized ...

There’s good evidence that in Midwestern fields, corn row spacings of 20” or less can provide your crop with several key advantages. At that spacing, yields tend to be higher, up to 10 bushels more ...

Marion Calmer has a dream, a dream that one day agriculture will move to narrow-row corn, increasing the bushels of corn grown worldwide by 5 to 10 percent. His dream is the manifestation of other ...

Many growers continue to be interested in narrow row corn, but there are lots of unanswered questions regarding the potential of this technology. But there is progress in our understanding of narrow ...

ALPHA -- Narrow-row corn and soybeans did better than traditional widths last year, according to the Calmer Agronomic Research Farm. Marion Calmer, CEO of the independently funded, farmer-run ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Could corn growers increase yield if they reduce spacing between rows to 22 inches or less? The answer depends on where the grower lives. Minnesotans living near Fargo, N.D., would ...

In recent years there has been increased interest in growing corn in rows narrower than 30 inches, says Wayne Schoper, Brown County (Minn.) Extension educator. During the first quarter of the 20th ...

When he joined his dad’s soybean-cleaning venture in 1964, Harry Stine was the family’s fourth generation to farm Dallas County. Working his fields, Stine spotted some over-producing soybean plants, ...

NEW ROCKFORD, N.D — Farmers with cattle in Iowa, South Dakota Minnesota and North Dakota increasingly are trying the “wide-row corn” — interseeded with crops and cover crops — to improve profits while ...

SERVING LIFE IN PRISON. FALL HARVEST IS WELL UNDERWAY ACROSS OUR STATE. THAT INCLUDES THE STATE’S MILLIONS OF ACRES OF TOWERING CORN STALKS. BUT IN THE FUTURE, THAT TALL CORN, WHILE IT MIGHT NOT BE AS ...