Thinking about more corn, what do you think?

I have 40 acres of field left to plant. Even with the 1.5 " rain last night I could go on it by tues afternoon. These feilds were intended for beans BUT, it just feels like corn is gonna be holding value now through next fall. I have 15 bags of treated seed that I can not return, the rest I can. These are lighter warm soils, I finished my initial corn planned acres yesterday(85 day), thank goodness as I wont get into that field again for a couple weeks, thinking I should put in another 20 acres of corn as I have 2 tons starter left and this 20 acres received 4 tons per acre chicken poop last spring so should have alot of nutrients available yet. WWYD? Would 87-90 day be pushing it? I am heavy on corn this year, 28% beans and 72% corn. I have 3 friends in the area north of me that havent been able to plant even 10% of their ground. Father in law took a week drive from here to montana and said he seen nothing but water, mud, and very few planted feilds. Kinda sad.

Plant the corn.

From here on out there will be a lot of beans planted throughout the US. Corn by June 10 or so may be the way to go.

That manure will do more good on corn than beans.

Gary

I've planted until June 6th or 7th here in MN, depends on the rest of the year, if we have enough heat units to let it grow happy. If we get it cool most of the summer you'll have very high moisture come fall.

I'd go ahead try it tho, if you can get it in the next 7 days.

--->Paul

There are a lot of corn acres going back to beans in the Eastern corn belt. They have very little planted in Ohio and Eastern Indiana. Even with that being the case. I would really think long and hard about planting corn this late in MN. If we continue to be cooler and wet the rest of the summer. It very well could be another early fall. In 1984 we planted late here in North Eastern Iowa. I finished on May 28. On Sept. 10 th we had a freeze, 22 degrees. That corn was 35% moisture. It never dried anymore. I let one field stand until the next spring and it still was 30%. I seem to remember you not having any grain drying ability. If you plant late corn you better have a backup plan on how to use it wet. I could make silage out of it and feed it. Some guys bag it as high moisture corn and feed it. I would not do it with out those options.

Also did you not just have a frost warning this last week???? I know the twin cities did. I would not get greedy trying for the big corn lottery. Plant the normal beans and still make some money.

As far as the seed you have that can"t be taken back. If you store it in a cool dry place it will be fine next year. I usually have several bags I store over. I just put them in the basement and cover them with a tarp. I sent a germ check on some here several years ago. It only lost 2% from the original test.

I suppose it depends on just where you are. MN is a big place. Here in central NY, southern Cayuga county, at my elevation of about 750', 95 day corn does the best for me whether I'm planting the last week of April or the first week of June. I was going full bore yesterday and dared to think I would finish planting corn before June. Got .7" last night.
All longer season corn does for me is guarantee wet crap to dry. All short season corn does for me is guarantee a smaller yield. But, it's been a while since I've tried any, and I dry my own corn.

Gary, you are right about the manure. My garden sweet corn, fertilized only with chicken manure and planted the last week in march, is over 6 feet tall, tasseling, and starting to put on shoots.

I suspect manure under beans will promote a lot more stalk growth than seed growth, though I haven't tried it.

KEH

Last year one chicken manured corn ground we averaged 67 bu acre on beans, planted 15" rows, 140,000 pop, 1.4 maturity Genuity beans.