The Far East...of Nebraska. | ECIAROWCROPPER - 10/6/2016 17:27
Keep in mind when germination weather is good in the fall it always looks worse than it is. Say you had 2 bushel total loss; that would be 160k kernels per acre. If only 25% of those germinated and started growing as volunteer it would look like a thick population of 40k regrowth out there.
X2 what you said. If you are running 200some bushel corn a 1% loss would be 2 bushels. That's absolutely acceptable in my book. It will look very green if you get the right weather, and the coffee shop will explode about how poor of an operator you are. If you believe in phantom loss you came out way ahead by just losing the 2 bushels. But hey, your corn got harvested when it was still warm and part of the growing season so it's gonna have volunteer.
It's just one of those things, kinda unavoidable and I don't think the people who harvest early worry about it, but the people who like to critique sure can get worked up about it. You definitely can't hide mistakes with early corn, but what some people think is a mistake might not be. |
post harvest volunteer corn?
