Fighting the Great Corn Borer Wars

sammy the RED · Apr 28, 2012

A good read....Enjoy.

Fighting the Great Corn Borer Wars: The Harris Lawrence Post-War McCormick-Deering Little Genius Plow

http://wellssouth.com/blog/?p=794

Anonymous-0 · Apr 28, 2012

Interesting: The Great Corn Borer wars were also fought in the late 1920's in Northwest Ohio. In one of the "Two Clinder" magazines there was a story about special model D tractors used in Ohio and my dad told stories of how in the fall for two years in a row they wanted all the corn stalked plowed in the fall. He said it was very dry one fall and it was no problem doing custom plowing with a tractor as most farmers still had horses. He said he did a lot of custom plowing with a 2 bottom plow and his 12-20 Oil Pull.

DoubleR · Apr 28, 2012

Guess I learned something today. I plant corn on corn year after year due to my small operation. I almost always plow the ground in the fall. I didn't realize I was fighting off corn bore by doing so. I tried doing it without plowing a few years though but went back to plowing which seem to work out better for me. I have been planting the BT seed the last few years also. Maybe I'm wasting my money in doing so. It was interesting reading.

paul · Apr 28, 2012

The researchers say as long as your neighbors are using BT corn, we can plant regular & still reap the benefits. Hum.

We are also seeing some viruses in corn - Goss' Wilt - because of little or no tillage.

Solve some problems - erosion and fuel use - with notill or multch tillage, and create new ones - more pests.

--->Paul

sammy the RED · Apr 29, 2012

It just never ends !!!

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