last corn question (maybe)...

Anonymous-0 · May 19, 2010

Sorry folks,
running around this morning, saw a farmer shaking his head over abour 2 acres of the little yellow stuff. Assuming the stuff will kick in and grow, what would be an average yeild per acre of finished (dried ready to pick the ears) corn. I know there are a lot of variables, but folks in this area, especially the old guy that has these 2 acres, aren't real big on altered (hybrid?) ways. Idea is just to buy it from him now while he's shaking his head. He don't make a living from this patch so I wouln't be scalping him, just taking a burden of both of us. He keeps pigeons and grows (rotating years) wheat, barley, and corn for pigeon feed and a little trading material.

Dave

Janicholson · May 19, 2010

If non-hybrid, not agressively enriched with fertilizer, and in a small plot, it might yield 50 to 60 pu/acre. It might not.
Hand picking 2 acres is not dramatic but will build stamina. A husking pin would be a helpful hand attachment!! Jim

VADAVE · May 19, 2010

Janicholson is probably right.
Now you could run a little demonstration--Get him to sell you the corn AND allow you to enhance the crop. Then have the local dealer dribble some nitrogen. Have them put on 60 or 70 lbs/units of nitrogen and a 10-20 units of P and K. That corn should turn dark green and take off.
If I'm right all your neighbors will be looking, talking and asking "what did you do?".

randallk · May 19, 2010

Thanks a lot there Janicholson..........now he'sgonna be asking a ton of more questions! He'll think he can get 50-60 PICKUP loads per acre....(pu/acre?) Now he will need to know how to use a "husking pin". This just ain't gonna end.

Anonymous-0 · May 19, 2010

(quoted from post at 07:57:35 05/19/10) If non-hybrid, not agressively enriched with fertilizer, and in a small plot, it might yield 50 to 60 pu/acre. It might not.
Hand picking 2 acres is not dramatic but will build stamina. A husking pin would be a helpful hand attachment!! Jim

Thanks! Picked plenty of corn as a kid with my buddy but could never get the hang of the husking pin (didn't know what it was called either). His old man taught me to just break the base and leave the majority of the shucks on the stalk. After everything was picked, we had to go back and cut the stalks & take them to the barn.
Thought we'd work smart one year and cut the corn all at once and took it to the barn. Old man just smiled. Wasn't one of our better ideas..

When it comes time to pick, I'll have some soldiers over for a cook out.

Dave

GordoSD · May 19, 2010

Closer to 5 if he's lucky.

Gordo

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