Volunteer Corn

nh8260 · Jul 9, 2015

One of my fields I didn't get to plow this year and just cut it with the disc, problem is I have quite a bit of volunteer corn coming up with my planted corn, anyone know of a way to get this out? The corn is DeKalb 6469, just wondering if the volunteer corn might be stunted or killed when I spray roundup for the planted corn? 2,4D kill it? I know Poast would but it would get the corn I planted.

gbs · Jul 9, 2015

is the corn you planted roundup ready or libertylink resistant,what about the volunteer corn is it resistant to either ?

nh8260 · Jul 9, 2015

Both last year and this years was roundup ready but not liberty link. Same variety both years

IaGary · Jul 9, 2015

Steel is about your only choice. Whether it be a cultivator or a garden hoe.

It is all Roundup resistant, planted or volunteer.

Gary

nh8260 · Jul 9, 2015

Do you know what kind of ear the volunteer corn would have or what it would do to my planted corn? I've never been brave enough to replant the corn I picked

Brown Swiss · Jul 10, 2015

If it grows anything like around the crib will make a god ear but to thick like I am guessing it is will make fodder with tiny nubs!

paul · Jul 10, 2015

Nothing you can spray will help your situation, the volinteer and the planted corn both have the same traits, what affects one affects the other.

The volinteer will steal some nutrients and sunshine from your good corn. Reducing yield a bit.

The volinteer corn would be coming from a hybred, so it will be all mixed up as to what type of yield and characteristics it will have, depending on if it picked up more genes from one side or the other of the hybred parents. Every volinteer plant has the potential to be different, some will be bare nubbins, some might be top yielders. In general you would average pretty low yield from the volinteers.

Usually its not too bad a deal, takes a little yield off but it is what it is, not bad.

Paul

rrlund · Jul 10, 2015

We rented a field one year that we had to go in to with the cultivator and make rows in it,the volunteer corn was so bad. The guy who worked it the year before didn't pick it until spring and either it had gone down bad,or he just ran over it without even having the picker running.

nh8260 · Jul 10, 2015

Ok, thanks guys, maybe I can knock some down when I go in and spray roundup in a few weeks, that will get rid of some of it.

gary in neb. · Jul 17, 2015

I sprayed mine with tapout. got it from Helena Chemical. had roundup ready corn in my round up ready beans. or as a couple neighbors said "I have some beans in my corn".....it was pretty bad.
Gary

GordoSD · Aug 3, 2015

I'm confused. You want to eliminate corn in your planted corn field? The law of the jungle will prevail. The strongest survive.

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