Pioneer Corn

nh8260

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I was looking at buying Pioneer P1319HR field corn, anyone have any good or bad reviews of this variety?
 
You should ask the neighbors. Seed corn buying is a local thing. A hybred planted in Illinois might not be the best out here.
 
Well the bad part is not a lot of corn is grown around here and the people I've talked to have not planted this variety.
 
Much of their corn is very good, but it likes to can ablaze its own stalk to put on an ear.

That makes it fall down easily, or perhaps the ears fall off the shank as that part gets canalized.

My soils are difficult, I need a tough plant to handle growing here. Roots need to burrow into the clay or peat, winds come and push things around, etc.

Pioneer just doesn't do well 'here'. Dad planted some for the last time in the 1970s. It was some of the best yielding corn he never had, so we can see why people who can like it so much.

But, 40-50 bu an acre were laying on the ground, dropped off the stalk. He didnt get to harvest very much, and had a mess of volinteer corn the following year.

My understanding is Pioneer continues that tradition, of high yield at the expense of stalk health.

So, I don't want to say it is bad corn, but it does not work on my tricky soils. At all.

Paul
 
Wow, sorry my spell checker won't even let me try to get the word out I was trying to spell, the pioneer corn works so hard to fill the ear that it takes away too much nutrients from the stalk and makes them very weak, eats itself up to make the ear.

That works well in some locations, and is a disaster in my location with my soils it what I was trying to say.

Paul
 
(quoted from post at 15:31:57 04/21/14) the pioneer corn works so hard to fill the ear that it takes away too much nutrients from the stalk and makes them very weak, eats itself up to make the ear.

I just finish cleaning up a mess of Pioneer stalks last night. Weather conditions forced a delayed harvest. Lots of corn and accompanying ears on the ground. I had no choice but to moldboard it as deep as possible to get rid of the volunteer issue. Stalks every which way, which I mowed. In some places the plows were plugging every 100 feet. Seemed like roots gave up as well as the stalks. It took twice as long to get over that mess as it should have. Now it will take twice as long to disc cleaning up the mess I made dealing with the stalks.
 

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