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Middle TN | I know this hasn't been a good year to judge, but I am learning some things about our practices because of the predicament we're in.
I've inched populations up to 30,000+ this year on our better ground and fixed hybrids. Since it finally rained nearby and cooled off a little, I felt compelled to walk some corn. While many, many stalks will not have a harvestable ear, I did find a couple of ears, on stalks that had little competition, that had 18x44 kernels with no tipback. I couldn't believe it.
We lost some of our stand to a late freeze and where it was the worst, the corn did have an ear.
Is 30,000 wishful thinking in southern middle TN? 150 is considered a great crop here but I have done 200 a couple of times.
Fwiw, 111 day corn planted last of march. Pollinated before the heat and is currently denting prematurely.
Edited by TNalfalfa 7/2/2012 22:17
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Am I pushing populations to high? TN guys???
