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flying belgian

06-26-2007 07:37:19




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Have 45 acres corn planted on wonderful stand of fall plowed clover ground. Fall applied anhydrous. Planter applied starter fert. Side dressed more anhydrous. Plant pop. 38,000. So far been getting timely rains but am going to need about 3/4 inch every week from now to Oct. If I get the rains this should be my best yield. If I don't get rains this will be a disaster. I don't know if I should have gambled with the high plant pop. or cut back and went with the sure bet. What do you think?

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Leland

06-26-2007 19:38:56




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
What happened to the days when you planted corn 20,000 and had ears that looked and sounded like firewood going thru the combine ?? And still yeilded 175-200 in a good year



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JoeBob/IN

06-26-2007 16:13:17




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
Boy, that makes our 24k look thin. Of course it depends on the soil. I assume you are on some nice fertile soils. Sittin on sand here, and I don't mean sand like some of ya'll think is sand. This stuff is sugar sand and gravel.



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James22

06-26-2007 13:45:35




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
Generally most limit population around here to 36.5K. We are slightly more conservative and 33 to 34K is the upper limit. Nobody here plants below 30K anymore. The 38K isn't much higher, but can easily not yield more unless you have the nutrients right. Seems like a recent study showed that you can get well over 40K before you hurt yields. The negative is that you just lose the cost of the extra seed and since the overwelming trend is to triple stack products, this can get expensive.

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730virgil

06-26-2007 13:29:23




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
the so called experts have been telling us ( n il) to plant hi corn pop for several years. yeilds have been going up too. one neighbors tells me on a 77 a feild just west of me he is running 200 bu plus. corn on beans no till.



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Don-Wi

06-26-2007 11:31:34




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
We tried setting out planter to 30,000/acre this year but it just didn't seem to put it in thick enough. It seems alright now that it's 3-4' high, but there are still some awfull long spaces in some of it.

We just put in 2 more acres of late corn after plowing under a really small hayfield and covering it in manure. Just because it's late corn and we're experimenting a little, we set the planter for 40,000 and drove really slow (JD 495A planter) and sure enough the seed really went down. Put it in on Saturday so we should see how it went by the end of the week. Some rain sure would be nice, as long as it comes before we cut our 2nd crop this weekend sometime.

Donovan from Wisconsin

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the tractor vet

06-26-2007 11:13:48




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
And i thought that i had the population set high at 31800 on 30 inch . Took a short walk thru some of it yesterday and mine ain't going to make knee high by the 4th it's already over the top of my head . This is the second year of super nice corn even though this year we got hit with a bit of hail a couple weeks back did not seam to affect it any as at that time it was waist high.



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triplerange

06-26-2007 10:25:45




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
I think the pop. is plenty high, but maybe you knocked some out side-dressing. You're right...You need lots of rain! Good luck!



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low budget

06-26-2007 08:43:04




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
You'll know better in a few months. :>)



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Allan In NE

06-26-2007 07:56:44




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to flying belgian, 06-26-2007 07:37:19  
Wow!

That's awfully thick. What's your row spacing?

Allan



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flying belgian

06-26-2007 09:15:22




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 Re: corn pop. in reply to Allan In NE, 06-26-2007 07:56:44  
30" Yield contest winners plant that heavey and more but they are feeding the crop all season long.



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