{"id":12955,"date":"2021-04-19T10:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12955"},"modified":"2021-04-17T00:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T05:54:02","slug":"the-volunteer-corn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-volunteer-corn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The (Volunteer) Corn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12959\" alt=\"IF\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/flatcorn.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/flatcorn.jpg 540w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/flatcorn-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><br \/>\n<em><strong>August 18, 2020:<\/strong> Flattened corn near Keystone, Benton County.<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/flatcorn.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s derecho sowed the seeds of a weed that is Roundup Ready, extremely visible, and scattered across most of Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer corn is going to be all around this season, as unharvested corn takes root in what this year will usually be soybean fields. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iowapublicradio.org\/ipr-news\/2021-04-12\/the-effects-of-the-august-derecho-could-stick-around-in-planting-season\">Iowa Public Radio has more.<\/a> (There was a <em>Spokesman<\/em> article too, but that&#8217;s paywalled.) Kernels and ears left on thousands of acres will pop up without a care.<\/p>\n<p>Control of volunteer corn requires a non-Roundup herbicide, as explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/crops.extension.iastate.edu\/blog\/bob-hartzler-meaghan-anderson-prashant-jha\/management-volunteer-corn-fields-affected-derecho\">this page from ISU Extension<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 18, 2020: Flattened corn near Keystone, Benton County. Last year&#8217;s derecho sowed the seeds of a weed that is Roundup Ready, extremely visible, and scattered across most of Iowa. Volunteer corn is going to be all around this season, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-volunteer-corn-state\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12960,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12955\/revisions\/12960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}