Downtown Shell Knob MO Come Visit! | I do know that most modern day corn loves to have a corn plant on both sides of it to help shade the lower leaves, I may be blowing smoke but the couple plant bios and breeders that Ive visted with say that the leaf that is at the same node of the ear is important during ear fill and if a corn plant is getting complete sun to the bottom leaves it will not put full growth into the leafts that matter which are the top pair and leaf with the ear. We have some terraced fields and unterraced contour ground that we strip corn and beans in and some with corn and alfalfa , we are all notill and have no erosion problems where we do not strip controur ground so to be honest with you, the only reason we still do it is becaue it looks neet from the raod, From a fertility, sraying, standpoint, its a pain in the rear and we have never seen a yield or insect beniffit. ALSO: A soybean plant uses all the n that it makes and then some for itself while it is growning, Its only after it dies that the nodules release N for "next years corn" |
strips of corn and beans
