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Anderson County Kansas | We didn't get any rain in July this year. Also I don't think with the population we plant we will get much better yields than that. The hybrids probably had better ear flex 10 years ago. We aren't going to plant thicker because we only get the conditions for this kind of crop every decade. When we plant very thick and get our usual weather, the stalks are very weak and the corn goes flat. I'm pretty sure if we planted it thicker it would have made a little more this year. An example, one field had 3 yield zones. The population for the zones was 22k, 24k and 26k. There is a patch of bottom ground in this field, and when I got to it I upped the population to 28k manually instead of using the prescription. The corn on that ground was making 230 to 240 and the field averaged 193. With the conditions we had this year the whole field would have made more had it all been planted at 28k, but 9 out of 10 years it wouldn't.
Edited by cornstalk 9/22/2014 08:27
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