Planting Sweet Corn

Pictures are of me planting sweet corn last spring with my 49 B JD.

Thats a nice picture! How did the sweetcorn do? What kind did you plant?

Your photos make me miss spring already.

We plant our sweet corn with a 1949 Case VAC and a Ford # 309 two-row planter.

We plow with a 1960 IH diesel B-275 and Deere double 14" #Model 914 plows.

We till with a 1959 Ferguson TO35 Deluxe and King Kutter 5 foot rear tiller.

We disk with a 1961 IH B-275 diesel with Ford # 201 10' wide disks.

We also make and mark potato rows with an Ford-Dearbon rear cultivator with big shoes stuck on it.

We dig our potatoes with a 1960 Deere 1010 crawer and rear #35 ripper. Works much better then it sounds.

Note - tractor not running in my little kid's photo-op, so don't call the local child-police.

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IH B275 and Fergy TO35 Deluxe

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Ford two-row planter

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1949 Case VAC and planter (my favorite combo)

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I had about 1 acre and harvested 5000 ears I sold at the farners market in town, don't know how many we ate and gave away to friends, family, etc. Made a good profit from it, better % than I made on cattle. The variety was Incredible. Seed came from Amish country in Ohio.

is that a Dearborn middle buster behind your Fergie? looks just like the one i got without all the extra iron.

Nothing like the older tractors. Don't have to make big payments to the bank. Can keep all the money for yourself. How many acres of corn does it take to pay one years payments on a $100,000 doller tractor. The big guys aren't always the smart ones. Think about it.

we had only one snowfall., I am thinking of spring already, just like you are!

I only planted a small patch last year, but the racoons hit me pretty hard

One way to figure is 5.00 a bu and 200 bu per A since you put it like that

I like yor pictures,send some more if you can, you got the blood stirring!

I still use a Super M and a 1960 JD#70 to plant 40 to 80 acres a yaer.

40 to 80 acres of sweet corn?

No,field corn for livestock feed.

Looks like you have a severe shortage of rocks in your dirt there. I'll bring you some of mine next time I'm going to Macfaddens.

Did you make three plantings at 10 day intervals?

I only 2 plantings about 17 days apart because I sick and was inthe hospital 7 days between the plantings.

Thats a great picture! send more if you can!