The Secretary of Stateâs office is the central filing office for certain financing statements and other lien documents provided for in the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). Filing with our office serves to perfect a security interest in named collateral and establish priority in case of debtor default or bankruptcy.
Corn is a major field crop in New York State with more than 1 million acres planted annually. Typically, grain corn (including dry-shelled and high-moisture) represents 55% of the acreage, whereas corn silage represents the remaining 45% of the acreage. Recently, corn has been a very profitable crop to grow because of relatively high yields as well as high prices received by farmers.
About two-thirds of the N in a corn plant ends up in the grain, so our 200-bushel crop would have about 240 pounds of N in the plants before harvest. This is 1.2 pounds N per bushel, which has been the factor that has been used to convert proven or expected yield into N rate recommendationsââ1.2 is the most [we] should do.â This has been the corn N rate recommendation in Illinois