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The next stage is silking and tasseling, which is a couple weeks away yet. "
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Cullers remembers hiking around his stepdad's farm to check on tasseling corn.
King of Bionic Ag Uses Turbocharged Seeds, Precision Chemistry, and a Little TLC Bill Donahue 2008
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It's a challenge: Basically, you have one week every year when you can't screw it up—mid-June, when it's tasseling and pollinating and everything counts.
King of Bionic Ag Uses Turbocharged Seeds, Precision Chemistry, and a Little TLC Bill Donahue 2008
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When corn is planted late, tasseling and grain filling occurs later in the season when average air temperatures are lower and GDD accumulation is less.
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In the United States, the first half of 2006 was the warmest since 1895, when weather data was first compiled, and the pollinating and tasseling times have since been set back by triple digit Fahrenheits.
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We're corn-fed, and grow up plowing corn fields, and get our first job at 14 de-tasseling corn in the awful July heat.
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2004
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Large reduction in N uptake of intercropped mungbean was observed when it flowered at 33 days but maize was affected 2 weeks later at the tasseling stage.
1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992
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Increasing the salinity of the irrigation water to 9 dS/m at the tasseling and grain filling stages did not significantly reduce yields.
Chapter 7 1990
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This is a systemic fungus that enters seedlings without showing symptoms until the tasseling stage.
Chapter 10 1981
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Pythium usually occurs around tasseling time but may also affect younger plants.
Chapter 10 1981
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