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Rolla, ND | I guess everything has a limit. We saw yield increases from higher populations during drought. It doesn’t matter what rate we see in a good year.
Now there is a limit to it and our dry year is not what you are having in your example.
But here is why that works here. The main head and the first two tillers are pretty tough, the plant will take quite a bit of stress and still hold them, so it is kind of like the plant more corn thought because while the plants are hurt, overal you get more.
In real good conditions, more tillers make it so the yield doesn’t tend to be that dependent on population.
I should also add that the plant 1.2 million to have a million plant population seldom happened. Much more common was plant 1.2 million to get 600,000. | |
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Wheat in the desert
