OT: Driving Hagie through the corn??#129300;#129325;

Greenfrog · Oct 8, 2020

I saw a farmer with a Hagie sprayer or spreader drive through a mature corn field. What is he doing?
Look like he would be mashing down a lot of corn as well as knock off a lot of ears. I would think that would contribute to some yield loss.
Huh?

sourgum · Oct 8, 2020

He might have been broadcast seeding a winter cover crop of cereal rye or some other mixture. Sometimes winter cover needs to be planted before corn harvest to get a better stand established depending on how far north he was.

fixerupper · Oct 8, 2020

I would be hesitant to drive a highboy through my mature corn for the reasons you mentioned though on the end rows it wouldn't matter how mature the corn is, it will still get mashed. Cover crop seeding like was mentioned was probably the reason. In my neck of the woods cover crop seed is flown on.

Greenfrog · Oct 8, 2020

Looks like a costly way to do a cover crop. Can’t it wait a week or two until after corn crop is out?

paul · Oct 8, 2020

Where are you located? Up here in the north country a week or two makes a huge difference, we could have snow on the ground in 2 weeks. Not likely, but certainly possible. Any warm sunny days are a bonus.

Paul

John in Md. · Oct 9, 2020

There was a guy down the road who had aerial application of deer repellant on mature corn while he waited for moisture to come down.

cumminspuller · Oct 9, 2020

Was the corn already drying down or was it still green? If it was still green he could have been spraying a fungicide on it. If it was drying down the only thing I can think of is spreading a cover crop before he harvests. Most Hagie's (at least the bigger models) do sit a little higher than Deere or Case sprayers. They don't do nearly as much damage as you think they would driving through it. There has never been a Hagie machine in my area that I'm aware of until this year. Local Deere dealer brought one in to demo. All of the corn fungicide that is put on here is normally done with a plane.

Greenfrog · Oct 9, 2020

Several of you asked location: West central Illinois.

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