TurkyRidge - 8/27/2017 17:34
Red Farm - 8/27/2017 14:40
Centuryfarm - 8/27/2017 11:29
Will this corn make black layer? We are about to get into September and we haven't seen full dent yet. This is behind both 04 and 09. You may be different in your area, but I am at ground zero for a sept 9 freeze.
I think you are arguing a different point that IN555 is trying to get across. Obviously a frost is not good for yield. But cool weather, specifically cool nights, is better for grain fill bottom line. That's assuming you make it to black layer. This cool August is only adding bushels to the national yield. One thing that will change that is an early frost up north which will be unfortunate for those up that way.
This cool weather is taking bushels not adding them.
A cool July and first ten days of august is ok. After that you want normal temps to give a strong finish.
A cold end of August and September is bad not good regardless of frost.
You guys gotta get it thru ur head that a plant is a factory and the lights are only on so many days and those days are getting fewer and shorter.
And the factory workers need time off. Lows in the high 60s and 70s don't allow the plant to take a break. You rush the kernel fill process and have 90k kernels per bushel instead of 75k. Kernel weight is added all the way until black layer. Guess its different where you are.
Frost??
