2019 corn planting

Looks good....production farmers are not even planting here yet! You must have like 200 day corn or something! I typically plant memorial day weekend for my plots. You using conventional or RR corn? I only use RR now...I planted conventional last year and that was a waste of time. You know what sort of population you have there?
 
RR corn at roughly 23k seeds per acre. It’s 116 day corn if I remember correctly.
 
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I’m in a pickle. We are very dry on the S.C. coast, but because I no tilled the corn in the crop has been able to find moisture. It’s grown so fast the last week that soon I won’t be able to broadcast nitrogen over top of it.

50% chance of rain Sunday, so I’m going to spread nitrogen Saturday afternoon and beg the rain gods to let it rain Sunday.


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I spread 300 lb/acre of 34-0-0 yesterday. Thank you, corn gods. I bet we got at least half an inch but maybe more. Either way, the corn is now on its own. I’m done spraying and fertilizing and won’t touch it again til late August when it’s time to pick.
 
Ended up getting exactly 0.5” of rain Sunday. I wish we got 4x that but will take it. Done spraying, done fertilizing. Now will pray for rain.

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This is the view in front of my deer stand.

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And this is behind the stand. That’s volunteer arrowleaf clover that has taken over after the winter wheat and crimson clover died off recently.

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This might be my last post in this thread. We are extremely dry in coastal SC and no rain is in the forecast. The next 10 days are expected to be in the upper 90s. If we don’t get a miracle pop up thunderstorm, the corn is toast. Depressing.
 
It will make it, corn is damn resilient. With that much canopy going on, it shades the ground and roots some. I say it survives...
 
cutman said:
This might be my last post in this thread. We are extremely dry in coastal SC and no rain is in the forecast. The next 10 days are expected to be in the upper 90s. If we don’t get a miracle pop up thunderstorm, the corn is toast. Depressing.
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Have you ever thought of going to a more drought tolerant plot like WGF sorghum and cowpeas? Maybe some buckwheat and sunflowers for the bugs and birds?
 
MarkDarvin said:
Have you ever thought of going to a more drought tolerant plot like WGF sorghum and cowpeas? Maybe some buckwheat and sunflowers for the bugs and birds?
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I’ve got 10 acres worth of cowpeas, buckwheat, sorghum, sunn hemp, and millet sitting in bags right now because there is no moisture to plant into.

We usually get 50” of rain a year...this year is an anomaly.
 
We got rain finally but it was too late for the corn. The drought and heat wave arrived right as the corn was ready to tassel, so pollination will be severely affected. However, all is not lost. There are many ears visible in the field and many silks still emerging. And best of all, the deer seem to like the fact that the corn is only 3-6 feet tall as it gives them easy access. There were a lot of deer in the field, including this fawn:


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