Posted by 2underage on July 16, 2016 at 04:58:23 from (64.19.81.242):
Went on a little scouting tour of my crops this morning and was not pleased with what I saw.
Some of my corn is 6 to 7 feet tall and tasseling and in the same field it is less than 3 feet tall and not nearly ready to tassel. In each field all of the corn was planted on the same day [early May} and was of the same variety and received the same fertilizer. We have been very dry here and we do need rain but that does not explain why there is such a variation in the germination of the seed. I did notice that the Pioneer brand corn seems to be doing better than no brand corn that I am trying this year but there is still a lot of variation even with the Pioneer corn so it is not just a failure of the new corn but something that caused erratic sprouting of all of the seed.
I only planted a few acres of soybeans and they went in late and are suffering from the drought. I am not as concerned about them as I am the corn because I never expected to have any great harvest but just to rotate from the corn and get some nitrogen from them next year.
I am wondering if any others have had this sprouting problem this year and what did I do wrong and what should I do to prevent this next year. I only plant about 100 acres of corn and 20 of beans here in northern NY State. Happy farming.
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