More about the field. That wonderful, innocent question came last summer, early on in my correspondence with Florida teacher Julie Faulk and her fourth grade class. Miss Faulk, as her students call her, heard about Iowa Farmer Today through a radio story about IFT s CornCam, the digital camera which sent images of corn onto the Internet. They were growing nine plants of corn in their garden, along with vegetables and herbs, and we struck up an e-mail conversation. 65 Temperatures Avg.
Departure shows how current temperature, growing degree days or rainfall varies from normal.
Growing degree days are a measurement of heat units that corn needs to mature.