SW Michigan | So it was our first year of growing our own corn. As you can tell by my handle, I'm learning as I go. In the past, we got husklage from the local seed corn plant, packed and piled it and it made cheap, decent feed. As we transition to organic, that had to change.
XIX planted my corn May 25 with a good chance of rain in the forecast; - it didn't rain measurably for 4 weeks. Maybe 1/2 germinated right away, the rest after we got adequate moisture, so I could only cultivate once. Taught me something about getting the ground worked right at the right time! No fertilizer except 5 gal. fish meal starter.
We filled around 70' of a 10' bag with 10 acres. The earlier germinated corn looked great and would have gone 15 ton/acre but there wasn't a lot of it. You can see all the extra green...
Chiseled, disced and got rained out, so last night I got a cover crop planted just before some more rain. That 12' Esch is all the 2-70 want to handle!
Edited by 1stgenfarmer 9/26/2016 09:49
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