Before you begin to harvest, examine grain for discoloration. If you see a lot of small, shriveled, discolored kernels, consider increasing your fan speed during harvest to blow them out.

Considerations for reducing the consequences of poor quality grain that can result from significant levels of vivipary include timely harvest of severely-affected fields, drying grain at higher temperatures to prevent further growth of the young seedlings, screening the grain prior to storage to reduce the amount of damaged grain and seedling tissue, and removing several loads from a full bin to reduce the high concentration of broken corn and foreign material that typically accumulates in the center of a bin during filling.

Four Critical Steps to Maximizing Corn Quality after a Challenging Growing Season