depends on the grower/location but planting rates are usually 1,500 - 2,500 per acre
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depends on the grower/location but planting rates are usually 1,500 - 2,500 per acre
the rotation is supposed to be 7 years for watermelon. So a lot of guys are also grain farmers
pretty similar... Phytophthora is the big issue. has been known to live in soil for up to 10 years!
Do you do bean stubble in spring going to corn and have you had trouble with an air pocket
Just passed a JD planter putting corn in river bottom at Richmond Mo east of KC metro.
We don’t have a lot of trouble with air pockets. We did switch the gladiator knife out for a regular NH3 mole knife. It’s not as aggressive. In a perfect world we would make the strips and get a rain on it but that hasn’t always happened. We have 400 acres of NH3 strips to make yet this spring.
Local coop has been doing work on their bars and while not worked yet I saw a couple tanks dropped out in a field near Humboldt.
Unfortunately, you can't grow sweetcorn unless you have a degree in genetics. Sorry, them's the rules...
Ok, well beyond that, there are a couple of different genes that make corn taste sweet when it is in the milky stage. We prefer to grow sweetcorn that has the sh2 gene, as opposed to the sugary enhance gene (se) or the old school su gene. sh2 varieties convert to starch slower, so you have a wider harvest window, and the ears last a bit longer in the fridge.
Also, we like to buy seed that is homozygous for the sweet corn gene. Some vendors call this F1 seed. The genes for sweetness are recessive. In homozygous varieties, both parents have the sweetness gene, so every kernel will taste sweet. If only one parent has the gene, then 1 out of 4 kernels will taste sweet. These days, I think most varieties are homozygous, but that hasn't always been the case.
With respect to kernel color, the rules are simple. Ignore it. The genes for color are completely independent from the genes for sweetness. Yellow, white, and bi color varieties can all taste delicious. If you plant them next to each other, you will see some franken colored ears, which is kind of cool. Many people call every bi-colored ear "peaches and cream", which is a misnomer. "Peaches and cream" is a specific bi-color, sugary enhanced variety. It was really good... back when Reagan was trying to defeat the commies. I would try to find a newer variety.
My advice is to pick a gene, and make sure that every variety you plant in that area has that same gene (sh2, su, or se). If sh2 varieties are pollinated with se varieties, the result tastes like cheap corn meal. You can space different genes out by planting date, but be warned, in the June and July heat, they all tend to sprout tassles at the same time.
I also recommend buying only treated seed (seed that is coated with a fungicide and/or insecticide). Sweetcorn seed kernels are not very hardy. A wide variety of pests want to munch on the seeds that you plant, so treating the seed gives you the best chance for success (yeah science).
Up to now, we haven't planted any round up ready varieties, but I am ready to (no pun intended). There is no hell like weeding a sweetcorn patch by hand in late June. Maybe next year. Still have seed left from last year
Disclaimer: I am a hobby farmer, and I really don't know what I am talking about.
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Produce aisle tomatoes and fishing lures serve the exact same purpose: to look good on a shelf so someone buys them. Neither one catches fish, and neither one tastes all that good.
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I find time to go the the games, but also put in a lot of hours that I will not have soon with a project I am doing. I am going to plant some fields with Wyffels for the first time, and I'm attending farm demos on no-till farming this spring and fall. NH3 in two weeks.
I've heard that corn yields can be just as good, if not better, with no-till practices, but I hear the yields for beans might be lower. Of course, there are savings on fuel and equipment costs. I already priced Yetter parts to upgrade my planter for this approach. One main concern is the pulling power required.
My dad is semi-retired, and I worry that transitioning to no-till would be too much for him. It was already a struggle moving to fall tillage.
I used to help inoculate soybean plants in the greenhouse for PRR. Don't remember how may thousands we did back in the day.
Hope you had better luck with Wyffels than I did. If the people you work with are good people that helps.
