Slow Corn Dry Down

Many factors affect corn dry down, but one of the big ones is nitrogen content in the corn plant.  If your corn matures before nitrogen is used up, dry down may be slow.  If you want to know if that is a factor, a nitrogen stalk test can tell you what is going on.  We can do the test any time after black layer.  Dave Nanda writes about this and other factors affecting dry down in Prairie Farmer.