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Planted about 25 ac of op corn on Monday. Checked on it this afternoon, it it up about an inch. Should not not have any cold weather from here on out. Last year I planted on March 10th. Corn was probably knee high in April :D
 
And where might this location be?

34 and wet here in SE Iowa. No corn in the ground yet.

Gary
 
Don't plant corn until April 25th, often first week of May here in
southern MN, but the daily snow is getting old here. Been a
few days since its gotten over 40, wind is gusting over 30 this
morning.

Sigh.

Paul
 
Used to be some farms around here grew popcorn for
Jolly Time company. It was picked in the ear this
was back in the 70's. Is it still picked in the ear
or can it be combined now?
 
Snow is in the process of melting here too. There was some corn planted before the storm. Wonder if the seed had overcoats.
 
That is one of the great things about reading on this site. You get to see how others do things so differant than the way you would.

Like how your dairy farmers use their fields to plant corn and keep their cows inside; when we use our fields as pasture and buy our corn.

Things about how you have to do things because the ground freezes where as if we rotate grass types we can have green grass year round.

You guys wait and wait to plant corn because it is to cold; where as we plant as early as we can because the heat of late summer kills us.

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Dad would not plant corn before May 9th, and I saw him replant the low spots more than once.

Now the experts say you lose yield potential here if you plant later than May 5th.....

I realize there have been advances in seed and seed coatings, but myself I don't get too worried about it. Every year is different.

One year I stopped planting corn June 6th, certainly there was yield loss on that but it was a tremendously wet year, only got 3/4 of the acres planted I wanted.

I agree with you. It is neat to see what is normal or common in other areas, different soil types. Really makes these forum interesting, and person has to remember my own back yard is not how the whole world works. ;)

Paul
 
Small, part time farmer here but got corn in 11 April. A bit later than we wanted but it was too wet from 1 to 10 April. (Close to NC state line)
 

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