Corn science

Corn science

The science of growing corn as a crop.

Contributors in Corn science

Corn science

The removal of soil by concentrated water running through little streamlets, or headcuts. Detachment in a rill occurs if the sediment in the flow is below the amount the load can transport and if the ...

boot

Agriculture; Corn science

The time when the head is enclosed by the sheath of the uppermost leaf.

leach

Agriculture; Corn science

The downward transport of dissolved or suspended minerals, fertilizers, pesticides and other substances by water percolating through the soil.

gully erosion

Agriculture; Corn science

They are formed when channel development has progressed to the point where the gully is too wide and too deep to be tilled across. These channels carry large amounts of water after rains and deposit ...

terminology

Agriculture; Corn science

Terminology is a discipline that systematically studies the "labelling or designating of concepts" particular to one or more subject fields or domains of human activity. It does this through the ...