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northwest IL Lee Co | In 2005, we were very dry. I have an 80 in which the north half of it needed tile. There is a ridge that divides the field basically in half. Corn on top of this ridge ran 190-200 and I was excited about doing the wetter half, south of ridge ran 165bu/a. It was very depressing, corn yields declined as I worked my way north and the last pass across the field on ran 120. This is good black dirt(soil type-Clyde). Got some tile in there in the spring of 2006. There was at least 18 inches of water on top of the tile place 4-5 ft deep before the trech was filled back in. Haven't had a dry year since then but the corn there looks good, green to the ground. We've had 4.2 inches of rain since the corn was planted on April 26th. Poorest corn since this tiling was in 2010, 195 bu/a, had some Goss's wilt. Since this experience, I've put as much tile in every year as I could afford. It has always paid. | |
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question on tile in drought
