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Central Missouri | Easiest part of that question is if your corn is tipping back and or your kernel counts arent reaching sub 65k per bushel you arent reaching potential.
If you dont set a goal any road will take you there.
If you set a goal you have to start figuring out what is holding you back.
Take your harvested ear population multiply by rows around and row length gives you kernels per acre then start dividing by 80k kernels per bushel, 70, 60, 55. That gives you potential then with tissue testing we figured out what nutrients we were short of and all had impact on late season fill.
28000 harvested by 16 around by 36 long divided by 65k is 248. None of those 4 factors are unreasonable. We are next to the missouri ozarks with rock, eroded clay, terraces and some good dirt all in same field. We increased our highest farm average on corn last year by 44 bu an acre. The interesting thing is when we made changes our yields got better even in the dry years. You could visually see the improvement in crop health.
It wasnt all fertility but the majority was. It was also putting into place what we learned about planter maintenance and operation. We thought we were doing a good job of that until we learned from the record holders.
It takes alot of work!
Edited by ehoff 12/8/2025 11:31
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