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WC MN | Drop down and take I 70/74 back home, do this every year and get a reasonable corn belt tour. Typically corn will be green starting in central IL and going west. Now look at a soil organic map of the US and note how dark green corn matches the high OM areas. With average rain and temp it is hard to make side dress work on our end of the cornbelt because our soil mineralization cranks out N mid to late summer. (Assuming clay soils) Eastern cornbelt has to work harder and smarter to do what dumb luck of geography does for us. Add way higher average rainfall to make N management even more difficult.
I always marvel at the viney lush fence rows and all the work needed to keep the jungle, er, forest at bay. Bromegrass ditches and fence lines here are relatively maintenance free in comparison.
Of course -.80 corn basis has a way of leveling the playing field, lol. | |
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Drove 80 from western Iowa out to Akron OH today
