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Dave from MN

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Well, in my sandy soil here things are going fairly well. Rye is a few days from knocking down, should be very high yeilding and I will take picks of the harvest to share, oats are still short in areas, but seem have headed out nicely, beans are really branching out and have started to blossom, just hoping for more height and rain when they pod out. My corn however has me curious. I walked the feild tonight and it is well over 6' high, close to 7', and tasseling, and in the areas where I spread manure and fertilizer each stalk has 3 little cobs starting and some appear to have 4, isnt it an awefully early stage to have even 2 cobs coming on? I always thought that a 3rd ( never amounting to anything) cob develops later after the 1st and 2nd cobs are forming. Is this a good sign of high yeilding corn? I do have a few small area where the volunteer corn was thick and will end up chopping for cow feed. I must say we do need a decent rain in the next few days or corn and beans will be hurting. Dont need a major down pour or my rye will be knocked down. Hows bout the rest of ya.
 
Dave, What population did you plant?

Some hybrids are multi ear but most are single anymore.

End rows will set out more silks than the middle of the field.

Lot of times you are better off with 1 big ear than two small ears.

Time will tell. To soon to tell yet.

Corn is just starting to silk here.

Gary
 
Well as of today things look very very good. I would say we are about 10 days behind in maturity on the corn but even the fields that suffered the most from the wet spring look ok now. We have had a couple of inches of rain this week. We have had rain all spring and summer. Makes it hard to get anything done but the crops are enjoying it. All of the corn is in full pollination. The weather is in the upper 80's and humid. Great corn growing weather. There are some late planted beans that look a little rough with thin stands because they were planted in the mud but other than that things are looking very good. Wheat harvest is over and the yields were very average, 60-80bpa. Oats, some are cut some arent. Havent heard any yields yet. The oats the guys put in on May 8 while I was planting corn arent quite ready yet so we havent cut them but look like they will be pleasant suprise. It looks like we could be in for another very nice harvest in cen. IL.
bill
 
I'm curious what kind of yield can you expect with 19,000 plants? You plant that population because of the sandy soil? What hybrids do you plant? Just got me wondering.
bill
 
Most guys here in SE MN plant around 34-36,000.We found 32,000 makes the best yield for us.

30" rows.
 
Got about 80 acres of hay ready to rake and bale and another couple hundred ready to cut. We'll bale tomorrow and hopefully cut more thursday/friday. By the way Dave, you've got mail.
 
Went with that population because of the drier soil, partially off local recommendations, if I had that traveling gun bought or known it was gonna be a decent rainfall year I would have went higher. 1st year cropping for me so it has been a learning experience. Next year I will stick with 2 crops, not 4, and I am going to utilize my 280 tons of chicken manure and my 12" irrigation well to maybe grow some nice corn on the whole north side of the place, beans or rye on the rest.
 
Gary,

As you know, it's been a long time since I was on the farm. How many acres do you plant per bushel at that 30,000 population?

I may be remembering fuzzy, but I think we used to plant 7 acres with a bushel of seed corn.

Best regards,

Stan
 
When I started in 74 we got about 4.5 acres out of a 80,000 kernal bag. That was around 18,000 pop.

Went up about 1000 every other year since 1980.

At 30,000 per acre I get about 2.6 acres out of a 80,000 kernal bag.

Gary
 
Well, we must have been planting around 11,500 per acre back then. We usually got 100 bushels per acre.

Thanks for the reply. Hope the cattle are doing well....nice herd, for sure.

Stan
 
In the 50s, corn was sold by a 56 lb. bushel, and if you bought small rounds, you could maybe get 7 acres planted- rates were much lower then too. Now, it's all 80,000 kernel units, no matter the size grade.
 
JMS./MN,

I didn't realize that seed corn is now sold by 80,000 kernels versus the old 56 lb. bushel.

Thanks for the update.

Stan
 
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