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farmer101IL

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First time I've ever seen it . The corn looks to be set on 30 inch row but doubled about 8 inches apart. The spacing is 10 inches or so apart. So it's like they staggered the corn 5 inches apart but 2 rows if this makes any sense.
I thought it was maybe seed corn . But its tassled already. Anybody know anything about this kind of planting.

Just wondering

Farmer
 
I plant sweetcorn in rows that are about one foot apart, and the seed is spaced at about one foot also. Put enough fertilizer in the ground and it works very well.
 
A lot of corn being done that way here, why I do not know, would take extra cost machinery and would think it would be hard to if it was brital to get thru the snaping rolls
 
Possibly silage corn. Lot of people doing it that way with the custom guys able to chop and row spacing. More tonnage per acre. I seriously doubt it will be harvested for grain or seed. unless its by hand. I dont thin there is equipment to handle them row spacings
 
Friend and neighbor plants corn in 15" rows.

Has a specially built corn head to combine.

The idea is to spread the plants out in the row so they can get more sunshine, and sooner canopy for weed control.
 
Twin-row planter. Was real popular idea 10 years ago, hear less of it now. I think it is exactly set up for 30 inch rows, but the twins are 8 inches apart. Works with normal combine heads.

The idea was to get a little more corn population, but not have them crowded so much. In places we get too much water, stalk strength is the limiting factor.

Now folks have gone to 15-20 inch corn rows, and forgotten about twin rows. See a few around yet here in southern MN.

--->Paul
 
Actually the twin rows go through the single row corn head pretty good. The head has about that much tolerance side to side. The stalks lean but don't loose their ears most of the time.

Gerald J.
 
I don't know if the yeild would be good with so much shading going on within the corn stalks. Even if you did have a good yeild, that's a slow harvest (in my opinion) trying to stuff twin sets of corn rows into a standard corn head.
 
Well, you only bump up the per acre population a few 1000 plants. It's not like you double the population! You can drive faster, because each row is running slower now.

It has it's benifits.

--->Paul
 
There's some of that going on up by me in Northern MN. Any day now I was gonna post a picture of it and ask what was goin' on. Now I know.
 
A neighbor of mine tried that a few years ago, looks like all of his is that way now. Thirty inch paired rows are 6-8 inches apart, goes through the corn head just fine. Population may be raised slightly, but the extra spacing between plants is what improves yield. Shades over a bit sooner so that keeps weeds down sooner.
 

I planted a block of sweet corn in this configuration this year. 2 rows spaced @ 12" then 30 inches to the next two so I can walk down em. I also have the same variety singularly spaced @ 30". We'll see how well the twins do compared to the solo rows... I wanted to see how yield would do doubling up so that I could maximize space a bit better next year.

I've been picking and selling sweet corn here in Michigan since last week in July.
 
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