An Extension agent says the condition of Wisconsin’s corn during this unusually dry August likely coincides with the type of soil it’s planted in. Ken Schroeder is in Portage County and tells Brownfield he’s seeing a lot of pineappling of corn leaves east of the Wisconsin River. he says, “On the east side of Portage County, that’s our sandier soils and there, we see corn that’s burning up. Some of it’s almost entirely brown in some areas, especially on some of those gravel knolls.”
But Schroeder says the corn is experiencing less heat stress west of the river.
