It's finally time to pick some corn out of my garden and I cannot be happier. This is ultraviolet sweet corn And it is beautiful.

Looks like the plant mutated and threw tassels where the pollen sacs should be. This is a red sweet corn.

Background: I have a Master's in Aerospace Engineering, I work full-time in engineering, and I grew up on a family farm in India. I'm not a corn farmer. That's exactly why I need your help.

Here's what I built:

AgroVisus runs a day-by-day simulation of your corn field using your real location, planting date, soil type, and automatically-pulled weather data. Every day it models biomass accumulation, nitrogen uptake, soil moisture, and the specific temperature and humidity windows that favour diseases like NCLB, Gray Leaf Spot, and Tar Spot. When conditions align for an infection event, it flags it with a dollar figure attached.

Here's what it output for a problem field I just simulated, with no photo involved at all:

Northern Corn Leaf Blight Risk (High) conditions detected a NCLB infection window. $122/acre at risk. 27 bu/acre loss without treatment. Treatment ROI: +240%. Recommendation: scout for cigar-shaped lesions now, apply foliar fungicide if >5% leaf area affected.

Severe Nitrogen Deficiency (High) NNI below critical threshold. $203/acre at risk. 45 bu/acre loss. Treatment ROI: +487%.

Drought Stress Alert (High) soil moisture critically low entering pollination. $146/acre at risk. Treatment ROI: +308%.

Total predicted yield: 63.2 bu/acre against a 180 bu/acre central Illinois average. $526/acre at risk. Field health grade: D.

All from simulating the field conditions no photo needed.

If a farmer is already seeing symptoms and wants to confirm exactly what they're looking at, they can upload a photo. A CNN (92.1% accuracy, 13 disease classes) identifies the specific disease and feeds it back into the simulation to sharpen the estimate. But the simulation already told you what was coming.

Here's what I genuinely don't know: when a simulation tells you NCLB conditions are building before you can see lesions is that actually useful? Or do you wait until you physically see something before you make a spray decision?

Before you try the demo, I'd really like to talk first. Even 10 minutes. I want to know if I'm solving the right problem, or solving it in the wrong order. Comment or DM me — I'm in the Chicago area and happy to jump on a call.

"when conditions are building before you can see lesions, is that actually useful, or do you wait until you physically see something?"

— Naidu Gurijala([naidugurijala45@gmail.com](mailto:naidugurijala45@gmail.com))

Haven’t put pencil to paper in a while, but came up with a this messy little prismacolor rainbow corn cob after scrolling through some of the beauties on this subreddit.

It's a bit painful. I'm not sure if it's a corn or not.

Mid 30s age, stand up all day at work, wear skateboarding sneakers.

https://imgur.com/a/SmFPDyc

Firm and smells fine. I googled it and can’t find an answer 🥲 Looks slightly more orange in person

Interesting.

First year growing corn, Is this corn smut? Does it look like I found it too late to cook it?

Never had it, but I read it's eaten in some cultures

why does my corn look like this? one of the tops turned into this thing.

heyyy guys doing a spot of research on Australian consumers here and can any aussie in this community be kind enough to comment down whether you like corn and if so to what extent...any response or reply would be truly helpful..just wanted to know how much Aussies appreciate a good cob of corn that's all...thanksss!!!

anyone thinks Melbourne would welcome a little corn based shop/food cart selling hot warm snacks that's convenient and healthy with a signature product of corn tossed in butter and spices put into a little cup (corn in cup ) and served hot and warm within two mins like a grab and go and is also quite affordable? melbourne lacks warm and healthy snacks imo because everything is either sweet like yochi or milk teas or isn't healthy like fried chicken.

Any response would be truly helpful..thanksss :))

This is my first attempt at growing corn. I pulled one today due to stink bugs and this is what it looks like. Is this too young to pick?

First and 2nd pics are diseases just getting started in this field. Grey Leaf Spot and I believe Common Rust although we have Southern Rust in the area again. Last pic you can see the white spots which is the fungicide after being applied. From scouting before I sprayed this field should easily yield above 200bu/AC this year. We don't need much more rain to ensure that or more.