| If you can have even just a couple hours of sunshine on the field after it's planted before the rain hits, the odds of a good stand get vastly higher in my experience. Some soils are more forgiving, and pressure to make marginal decisions gets higher as the calendar advances. Last spring on May 24 we-and everybody else around- pushed really hard to plant in lousy conditions and with a storm coming. It started raining about 11 pm while I was folding the planter, and poured on me all the way home. Everybody got to do it over. Here's what my stand looked like. Insurance adjuster walked 100 acres and estimated the viable stand at 2,000 ppa.
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Planting corn ahead of big rain? Do or don't?
