corn wont green up

I dont get it, chick crap at 3 tons acre, 120# 17-10-30 starter, 100 AMS, and an additional 50 of N via Urea, Still alot of light green, yellowish corn out there. Frustrated and am not throwing any more money at it. Shallow roots, still cool soils, leeched N, 8" rain, hard soils. What else could it be,worst corn I have ever raised , emabarrasing

This is not a good corn year in the Midwest. It's just too wet. A lot of our bad corn in the wet spots has greened up but it's short and thin. I have one notoriously wet 60 acre field I cash rent that I call my Florida Swampland and this year it's really living up to it's name. Being corn-on-corn for the past five years doesn't help but after sidedressing another 75 pounds of liquid N a couple of weeks ago it still looks sick. Today I told my son I'm not looking at that field again until harvest when I can put it out of it's misery with the combine. Jim

Corn on corn 5 years. Go back and read about wheat on wheat for 10 years from 1922 to 1932,

Its just too wet, here in western NC corn is very spotty, hillside corn is great but bottom land is up and down on height, some of it looks like its been in a drought!! Light green with yellow and brown leaves on the bottom.

if its not too tall and dry enuf ,, a good cultivating mite green the corn up ,...bro and I have 40 acre field like that, too much matted cheet in the cover crop wheart ,.we no til everything ,, the cheet areas would not let the ground dry out, and we planted when rains were coming and it was barely dry enuf ..in time the corn mite drive out and green up ,, but alotta things got to happen in your favor

You are not the only one.

I'll try to post pics within a few hours.


My best bottom land, which usually makes over 3 tons hay per first cutting, 90 bpa wheat, 120 bpa oats, and 200+ corn looks like it has hills in it. It is tiled, too.

It goes from over the hood of an allis chalmers 190, down to ankle high and thin as a railroad spike. yellow? I think in some spots it is white, and the bottom true leaves turned brown an fell off.


Does that sound like you?




They say corn will die if under water for 3 days. The fact that it hasn't died is what amazes me. I know it has been under water for longer than that.

This is just payback for that bumper crop I had last year, with the price being through the roof.


Looks like $4.50 bushel corn at harvest time and if I get 100 bpa average yield on the bottom, I will be happy. It looks more like 60 bpa corn though.

I guess the best thing to do is not even look at it. MY family was the first to plant corn in this part of the "new western frontier" in 1775. That year, they made 50 bpa, which was considered unheard of. It made the history books. (check beers history of Washington county)

I hang my head in shame this year.

On the bright side, I have a few fields on the hills that are making a new flag leaf every 2 days, and it went from ankle high on June 26th, to 6 1/2 feet tall as of today.

I did 6000 lbs of lime last fall, 225 lbs of 12-40-0 1s 1z MESZ at planting, broadcast 200 lbs of 46-0-0 treated with agrotain, and still I got those yellow spots. I am not throwing any more money at it either. IT is what it is. Let's just hope I get at least 18,000 bushel out of the 145 acres I planted, with all the other good ground included. That is my break even point. I don't wish for anything other than to just break even.

I'm taking the good with the bad and will eat a lot of hotdogs and bologna this winter until next fall. Just pray those ethanol plants come back online so the demand comes back up. We can't go back to $2.50 corn. With new tractors costing $200,000, and new planters costing $90,000, there is no way for anyone with small acreage like me to ever afford good used, let alone new, at $2.50 a bushel.

BTW, a 1981 JD 7000 max emerge 6 row non-no-till with dry fert just sold at a sale near me in June for $10,500. I think that is not far off what they cost brand new back in 1981. high cost of new is pushing up cost of good used.

Here are some pictures...




Yellow corn much?




Allis Chalmers 190 high, by the 13th of July! ...but only in spots...



I have more pictures to make you sick, but it is better to just say, "oh well!" and walk away... crying over spilled milk? In my case, that is how I look at it. I'm just glad I don't have all my eggs in one basket. I still have a kidney to sell on the black market. I got a few hay customers waiting for my first cutting, which I will call my first.5 cutting, because .5 of the green growth should be second cutting, if I could have gotten the first taken off!


Smile! If not, you'll probably find a rope and a tall tree and nobody wants that! Next year will be your best year. You will make them all jealous!

Cold and wet. Money won't buy weather. If it would I'd buy rain. It's too hot and dry here.

Lots of corn here looking pretty shabby too. Probably due to late spring planting. Neighbor was having urea spread on his corn by air... Apparently got behind, couldn't get it on in timely fashion. Know it was urea, called the applicator because he was over spraying on my place. OK,if it's just urea, go ahead, be a little careless - won't hurt my hayfields a bit!

the yellow parts look like the low wettest parts. Corn can't take up but so much water. Just think next year when its drier that's were the tallest corn will be.

Have you tried Viagra?

You might pull a tissue sample.It might be short something that is limiting N uptake, other then wet soil.

Sorry, I meant Vigaro. (;>))

I worked in a fertilizer plant a few years ago and one wet year everyones corn was looking awful yellow. Farmers would come in and want liquid nitrogen knifed into their fields in an attempt to get them to green up. Boss told them the fields were so wet the corn had taken up so much liquid it was a waste of money to do anything but wait because the corn was not going to take up any more liquid. Some listened some didn't and the corn fields turned out the same come harvest time.

Get in there with a cultivator. That soil needs air, not more fertilizer.

You can tell it's in the low spots. Too much water like others have
said. Let it dry out, get some sun on it, and watch it change. My
hay patches do....corn doesn't because I didn't plant any.

Mark

If you catch a good hot spell before it silks it will come out of most of it. We always found that if it silks with puny stalks there went the production for that year. Weather will be critical for you over next couple of weeks