OT , 85 day corn planted mid maym 30% moisture....

and NOT drying down one bit. Husk"s are super wrapped like a damn sausage skin around the cob. And only 47 test weight, and this is on ground that was not short of moisture. Sure not what the catalog said about performance. Worth complaining to the seed dealer or just eat the $.41 drying charge? Yeilded like a 100 day, but will not dry down.

You are only paying 2.8 cents a point for drying???

Thats what she told me she will charge me.

That's better than around here, local mill here wants $0.53 a bushel to bring it down from 25%, plus figure 15% shrink on top of that. Good luck

If the snow season is right around the corner for you then I would go get the crop to be done with it. Have you dealt with this dealer very long? I know from experience some dealers are what they call order takers and really do not put much time into matching the appropriate seed variety with a given farmer. Did you emphasize when you ordered it that you wanted primarily yield with a short season variety? If this was a new release it might have been appropriate to have tried it on only a few acres to gauge how well it would work for you. I strongly doubt the company is going to re-imburst you on the drying. Test weights are down in my area do to the abundant moisture and coolish temps so the seed company will chalk it up to the season. All you can do is make sure your nutrient management program is in order for next year including having soil test accurately representing the fields. Some guys try to cut corners or time by not accumulating samples that reflect what is going on in a given field. I have fields that have 6 soil types or more in units under 20 acres. Some guys want a one-size-fits-all approach to applying nutrients when they need a more precise approach.

Tjis dealer ussually just takes orders, when I inquired about red flags on this hybrid, only thing they said negative was it would drop ears because they are so big. It was a conventional, and actually is my best yeilding this year. Fertility is spot on, with the exception of needing to add more sulpher next year. I grid sample everything, and nothing goes over 3 years with out. Trying more companies out this next year, i figure if no loyal cusomer discounts, I need to spread it out and see what works best from a few companies. Planning on going to 80% conventional now that I have weeds under control on some newer feilds. Conv have just out yeilded my RR and CB hybrids. At $4 corn I will be more picky with hybrid selections, and a little more smarter with fert and spray applications.

Are You under a lot of rain? Or did the dealer miss-label the seed? Happened once to Me. The mistake was caught before the Soybeans were even blooming. A group II instead was a group IV; since I was able to harvest early, planted Wheat after it.

Some hybrids don't dry down well in adverse conditions. Here in my part of NWIA the corn quit drying down too. The first corn harvested on my farm was 103 day and it was in the 17.5-20 percent range. Three weeks later the last corn harvested was in the 19-20 percent range and it was a 101 day corn. It was all Pioneer ($$) corn that usually dries down well. It's just one of those years. Jim

This time of year.........it"s not gonna get drier. Rainy late October didn"t help a bit. Renter had different varieties side by side, one 23, other 33.

Get it out, winter is coming.

I think it's worth a call to the seed rep to discuss what may have happened or what to do differently next year. I have some 94 day corn on heavy ground, planted may 20th. It is currently 20%, 54# test. It stopped drying last week so I'm gonna take it.

Casey in SD

The thing I have found in the last several years is with the yield potential of some varieties the fertilizer recommendations are a tad bit conservative if you think you can hit the maximum yield. I honestly think my phosphorus are considerably lower than what they should be to hit the yield I seek so I want to raise my P levels by 20 to 25 pounds per acre of actual P so depending on the analysis applied that could be 50, 60 pounds or more per acre. Sometimes I think a farmer has to take a little initiative. Especially nowadays when your seed or fertilizer dealer has a greater interest to help your neighbor as opposed to you.

I had some three or four years ago that was that way. Couldn't get the husks off that stuff for nuthin. I stripped every single rubber finger off every wheel in the husking bed of the picker trying.