Why Spray Corn Now?

Pete-IN

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Location
Waterloo, IN
Saw the big operator spraying corn across the road from me today here in northern Indiana. Big rig covering at least 30 rows in a
pass. Did not actually see any spray coming out of the nozzles but I was not real close up. If he was just cruising the field,
the booms would not have been extended. Due to wet spring, corn was put in late but in a week or so they will probably harvest it
anyway. What would be the reason for spraying now?
 
Some now apply a cover crop into the standing corn, do they do tillage then not, but if they leave the stalks stand? The combining and driving and grain cart all work the seed in s9 it grows.

Here we froze already, that far south cover crops might work still.

Paul
 
If the corn was really green they were spraying salt water to kill it and harvest it in 2 - 2 1/2 weeks. Seed corn companies do it all the time in central IN to speed up maturity.
 

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