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Wheatley, Arkansas | If your soils are like ours, a week of hot dry weather will start the leaves to twisting, without rain (a lot of it) or irrigation another week of hot dry weather will pretty much make it a silage field. Corn likes water as much as rice does when it's tasselling, pollinating, kernel filling , and drying down.
When we first started growing corn here in our thin soils, an old timer said to go to the middle of the field and dig a foot deep hole, fill it with water and put some gold fish in it, start irrigating before the hole dryed up and then irrigate enough to keep the fish alive until 80% starch line on the kernel. It holds pretty true! We are on a weekly irrigation schedule now until 80% starch line or a 2'' rain. The 2'' rain would shut the wells down for 5 days. | |
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Corn during a drought?
