Turning Corn Ground

Rooster in Tenn · Feb 17, 2011

I turned some corn gruond today, with my 856 International. Ground turned good to day wasn"t to wet wasn"t to dry. Hope to have good a corn year. It is a sweet corn pach and I plant siver queen, had a pretty good yaer last year on sweet corn. Here are som pictures if I can get them to load.

FC Andy · Feb 17, 2011

Kinda hard to see the pictures, But glad to see you got to have some fun on the 856. I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking of plowing garden with a 4 bottom...

Rooster in Tenn · Feb 17, 2011

I know it's a little over kill. But it was fun, I like that old tractor.

sflem849 · Feb 17, 2011

It looks like somebody called the cops in the third picture! We won't be in the field for months up here.

GordoSD · Feb 17, 2011

How far apart (days) do you make your plantings. Idid ten day intervals and I had a lot of overlapping plants

FC Andy · Feb 17, 2011

I know what you mean. I'm not sure I could go on without my 806.

Denny ('60 Lo-Boy) · Feb 17, 2011

(quoted from post at 18:35:52 02/17/11) It looks like somebody called the cops in the third picture! We won't be in the field for months up here.

Same here in Ohio.

On Monday we still had 2 inches of solid ice on the ground. About all gone now. I plowed my sweet corn patch last fall not too far ahead of the snow.

Rooster in Tenn · Feb 17, 2011

I do ten day between planting, if the weather will work with me. Last spring we had that big flood, that washed half of my corn away. Iam about 60 miles south of Nashville.

DeltaRed · Feb 17, 2011

I feel the same way about my 706,or my Super M.

sflem849 · Feb 18, 2011

We did 7-10 up here in WI and they all evened out by harvest. We are thinking more like 14 days. There was an article in our CCA magazine last summer that said you are better off to grow different maturities than stager planting dates.

mkirsch · Feb 18, 2011

We've always planted four different maturities of corn... 65 day, 70 day, 75 day, and 80 day... I know the earliest stuff is "butter & sugar" and the latest stuff is "silver queen."

The only reliable corn is the butter & sugar. It always seems to come in, but it's hit & miss on the other varieties, especially the silver queen.

Hopefully the old guy with the airport will let me try my sweet corn patch again this year. Last year it got wet and stayed wet. Most of the seed drowned, and I couldn't get on the patch to spray or cultivate, so the weeds got out of hand.

FC Andy · Feb 18, 2011

Isn't it funny how a person can have a few tractors, But there's always just one that you'll do almost everything with and enjoy using the most?

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