Wierd looking crops

Went on a little scouting tour of my crops this morning and was not pleased with what I saw.

Some of my corn is 6 to 7 feet tall and tasseling and in the same field it is less than 3 feet tall and not nearly ready to tassel. In each field all of the corn was planted on the same day [early May} and was of the same variety and received the same fertilizer. We have been very dry here and we do need rain but that does not explain why there is such a variation in the germination of the seed. I did notice that the Pioneer brand corn seems to be doing better than no brand corn that I am trying this year but there is still a lot of variation even with the Pioneer corn so it is not just a failure of the new corn but something that caused erratic sprouting of all of the seed.

I only planted a few acres of soybeans and they went in late and are suffering from the drought. I am not as concerned about them as I am the corn because I never expected to have any great harvest but just to rotate from the corn and get some nitrogen from them next year.

I am wondering if any others have had this sprouting problem this year and what did I do wrong and what should I do to prevent this next year. I only plant about 100 acres of corn and 20 of beans here in northern NY State. Happy farming.

I had one field of silage corn that was planted the end of May that came up uneven like that. The low spots popped right up,but the sandy spots didn't come up until we got a little rain. It all looks a good dark green now,but like you said,uneven in height.

My milo and beans are the same. Mine is because of soil prep. We had a wet spell and then a little dry window. The worked fields were cloddy and didn't have good soil contact. The pre emergent on the no till fields was up about the time I planted so those have been fighting weeds. Now it is finally dry enough to spray but some beans are stunted from weed pressure. I've got about 650 acres of beans to spray this week. Then I will be able to see what I have. The milo was simply from soil to seed contact. Milo is picky and didn't like that cloddy ground.

We have the same issue in both the corn and milo. It just never came up until we got a shower again. We were dry until May 10, then got 13 inches of rain in May and June. The milo is some what late. Part of the corn didn't got in until July 1, but all in all, with the last inch of rain, I think the crops will even out somewhat.

Where I live on the rolling yellow clay hills of southern MN uneven corn fields is kind of the norm. We get too wet at some point in time nearly every spring, and it stunts the corn pretty bad in the low spots.

Sounds like your issue is too dry at planting time, I've only ever seen that once in my lifetime, and even that year it quickly corrected itself with a rain, tho the last half of that year got terribly dry for here.

Paul

I have the same thing in some canola fields. three different stages, I think due to seeding into dry conditions in some areas, then a rain started second flush, then hard rain crusted soil, next rain softened crust and final group pushed thru. Gonna be an interesting harvest.

Dick ND

same here uneven corn

I have uneven corn here in NWIA caused by wet conditions and compaction. A lot of the end rows look very bad. One 60 acre field looks horrible and it's replanted corn to boot. We had a dry June. Some of the corn in the low places with plenty of moisture down below was curling because compaction prevented the roots from getting down to moisture