M. R. Byrd
Active Member
twenty years ago I planted short maturity corn on some dryland bottom ground. It made 88 bu. The following spring there was good moisture so I decided to continuous crop that ground and planted the same hybrid and it made 105 bu/A. That was the last dryland corn I planted, not because I wasn't satisfied with those yields, because I was really excited, but I changed to a wheat-summer fallow rotation that I could handle better. Today there are corn hybrids bred especially for dryland corn with our rainfall here that have a lot better properties. I am anxious to hear yield reports of the dryland corn yields this year.Glad to hear that you're having a decent year rain wise. If the KS dryland corn doesn't do well this year it probably wouldn't any year.