SE IA | paul the original - 10/8/2015 14:59
This is the issue you will run into:
Weed control is different now than the rest of dads corn.
You will need a clean sprayer, and conventional only sprays in the tank. Timing of that will be different than a glyphosate system.
Will anyone forget and run the sprayer over your corn too, same mix?
Will you be timely with the weed control and have access to a sprayer and the right chemicals when needed? Will you end up buying a jug of 80 acres worth of weed spray for your 20 acres?
If that all works out fine for you, then sounds like a good plan. Be nice if you had a 100 gallon 3pt sprayer and could take care of your corn when it needs it with what it needs......
Insect control might be a problem every once in a very long while, but if you do a three year rotation, and everyone around you is planting insect controlling corn, you probably mostly won't have an issue. Might depend on your local insect pressures and situation too of course.
Paul
This is probably the best advice given here today.
And from what I see with Cornbore in our area there is no way I would ever plant a non-Bt/Cornbore traited product on anything. You see a few ears on the ground but what you don't see is the holes that those bugs chewed through the stalks cutting off water and nutrients not letting that corn finish filling that ear. |
GMO vs conventional?
