ecmn | Mark in WCIowa - 7/1/2026 14:45
So we planted with a 24 row planter, two numbers, 12 rows each, so strips of 24 rows across 1100 acres and the ONLY difference we saw was varietal, yet you are telling me we "could" have had good and bad strips that lined up directly with our planter passes?
Health was noted by having farmed for 50 years and knowing what healthy corn plants look like at waist to shoulder height. Dark green, uniform, good roots etc. Then had excellent pollination before rust set in over a matter of 10 days. Then crop slowly died prematurely, but again, depending on those 60' strips of different varieties.
If the ONLY difference was varietal, then you have your answer. I don't know what your question is?
But you know as well as I do a field can look fantastic from side to side front to back and when you get out there the yield monitor can move up and down pretty good.
Visual cues are not the standard or definition of a healthy plant.
Two plants can look identical but they can be having very different stress levels. Every square foot of the field is not the exact same. |
Organic Fungicide?
