Those weather factors, along with rising temperatures and humidity levels, all play a part in the success of corn pollination, notes Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field agronomist. Despite the ...

Corn requires half-inch long fresh silks at the tips of ears in order to pollinate. When pests clip silks shorter than that, pollination won’t happen. “When pollen drops, you need the silks to ...

But for farmers producing plants for hemp fiber and those cultivating flowering plants for medicinal purposes, cross-pollination between neighboring fields has become a significant challenge.

Since corn cross-pollinates fairly easily ... If you want to save your own seeds and avoid cross-pollination, it's much ...

and that 95% of corn pollination in Nebraska was complete before the first monarch eggs hatched. (Adult butterflies feed on plant nectar and are not affected by toxin-containing pollen.) ...