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MN Corn-what do you plant for maturity?

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Dave from MN

02-23-2008 07:56:21




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I was just curious what some of you plant for 85 day, 90 day,95 day, for your area of MN. When do you ussually plant and when do you ussually harvest. Do you get better yeld with the 90-95 day corn. A mentor says to plant 85 day, but he plants that because he wants all the corn down before deer hunting, no exceptions. I am not doing alot this year but wonder what some of my fellow Minnesotans do. Dave

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JMS/.MN

02-23-2008 20:34:36




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 Re: MN Corn-what do you plant for maturity? in reply to Dave from MN, 02-23-2008 07:56:21  
Latitude of St. Cloud- 95 day is about right. I"m about 15 miles south of that-never go over 100, or under 90- for normal season corn. When I had the dairy, I would put in a silage blend that ran 90-102 days, but what did not go into the silo- I could pick as high moisture shelled corn, into the Harvestore. The blend was cheap- basically last years top single cross hybrids, returned, repackaged, but not intended for field corn. I"d plant about 80 acres, cut 40-50 for silage, and pick the balance. (Blend had variable moisture content at harvest- ok with the Harvestore, but a B to dry.) Field corn was generally 92,95, 98, and..... 100 day max for maybe 10-15% of the acreage. With your acreage- I"d go with 1-2 varieties in the 92-98 day range. Adequate rain is your biggest challenge.

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JMS/.MN

02-23-2008 20:32:12




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 Re: MN Corn-what do you plant for maturity? in reply to Dave from MN, 02-23-2008 07:56:21  
Latitude of St. Cloud- 95 day is about right. I"m about 15 miles south of that-never go over 100, or under 90- for normal season corn. When I had the dairy, I would put in a silage blend that ran 90-102 days, but what did not go into the silo- I could pick as high moisture shelled corn, into the Harvestore. The blend was cheap- basically last years top single cross hybrids, returned, repackaged, but not intended for field corn. I"d plant about 80 acres, cut 40-50 for silage, and pick the balance. (Blend had variable moisture content at harvest- ok with the Harvestore, but a B to dry.) Field corn was generally 92,95, 98, and..... 100 day max for maybe 10-15% of the acreage.

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vernMN

02-23-2008 11:51:03




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 Re: MN Corn-what do you plant for maturity? in reply to Dave from MN, 02-23-2008 07:56:21  
East Central, (So. Pine County) I go 80 or 85 day. Yeild may be less but better chance than the higher maturity.



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flying belgian

02-23-2008 08:42:45




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 Re: MN Corn-what do you plant for maturity? in reply to Dave from MN, 02-23-2008 07:56:21  
I'm in Nicollet Co. and I put in a test plot every-other year. 95 to 100 day consistantly yields the best in this area. Farm Advantage is always in top 3 and usually the top one.



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Steve in MN

02-23-2008 08:37:13




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 Re: MN Corn-what do you plant for maturity? in reply to Dave from MN, 02-23-2008 07:56:21  
I live just South of I-94. We plant mostly 95 to 100 day varieties. Usually the later varieties for chopping and the 95 day varieties for grain. Gave up on 85 day hybrids years ago, just don't have the yield potential for this area. To maximize production we plant the full season varieties. They have a higher yield potential under good growing conditions and seem to be more drought and stress tolerant under less than ideal growing conditions. Steve

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