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| It depends on the hybrid. Lots of the new hybrids are 'seed salesman specials' - ie. they don't make a particularly large ear even at low pops, but can stand high plant populations well = lots and lots of small ears makes yield. Of course you need lots and lots of stalks to have those ears. It seems the seed companies push in many different directions - less pollen producing plants in the bag with some 'super pollinators' included to get pollination done, plants that put on ears even at 40K, etc. It's interesting to look at hybrids like 3394 and see that it still looks like a great hybrid, but it won't handle higher populations so it stopped winning yield contests. All that said, I wonder if the new technology really only capitalizes on average to good weather better than older hybrids, but in the situation we find ourselves this year it might not mean much. | |
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Are We Planting Corn Too Thick...??
