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southern MN | I’m not sure very much 300bu yields will be seen on a calibrated yield monitor here, but that amount of variability will be in more corn fields than not here. Too wet, too dry, too hot for a week near pollination, too much wind too many insects. This corn crop locally is one he h of a roller otter.
Planting a day earlier or later, catching a .33 inch rain or not, having good drainage or one click lighter soil, any little thing is extremely magnified this year. Mother Nature threw everything at the crop this year.
I had corn thigh high and saw 3 feet patches of corn sprouting a month later only at the three leaf stage in a couple of my fields. Moisture was an issue all year long, too much, too little.
I have a very weedy 30 acre bean field, about half of the seed sprouted in late July, the other half was starting to pod. Weeds took advantage of the bare spots, and I took too long trying to figure out my options on if I could still spray that..... oh well. It looked good until the rain came that sprouted the late bean seed, same rain made the weeds take off.
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Yield variation in Field 50 to 300 BPA
