[quote="LA in WI"](quoted from post at 00:59:43 12/31/09) Picture this scene with wire-checked corn:
Just before sunset.
Clear skies.
Slight breeze.
Corn about 6-10" high.
Freshly cultivated.
You are looking from east end of field, with sun glistening off (or thru) the leaves.
You can see all kinds of geometric rows, at many angles.
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
It sure was... although Dad quit check-row planting by the late '40s, I still remember seeing it well into the '50s, at least in NE Iowa. I know Dad never used check-row after going to a mounted planter on the C, I think in 1950, but it had the roll of wire with the planter. When Mom left the farm (mid-'90s) there was a very nice pull type 2 row IH planter left in the barn with the wire and it didn't look like it had ever been un-rolled or the stakes pushed in the ground.
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