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I always enjoy the first sight of a new crop PIC
William81
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It has been a wild, weird planting season in our neck of the woods. The planter got rolled in and out of the shed a bunch of times. We finally got dried out and had more that two days in a row without more rain so the corn was finally in last Thursday!!! Several of my neighbor's fields had to be replanted due to getting rained out...
I am still in awe of the process every year !
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Could that tiny plant end up in my gas tank?
You never know.....I just grow it, somebody way down the line will make that decision.
My dad had to eat breakfast at the local café during planting season one year.
It was a really wet spring and his farmer buddies were complaining that the ground was too wet to furrow and "pre-water" (irrigate it before planting crops) and as he thought about it it struck him that they wanted to spend a lot of money to dry the ground out so they could spend a lot of money making it wet.
So he went shopping for some 2" wide fluted coulters that he put in front of his planters. Coulters worked the ground just enough so the planters could work properly and he got his corn in the ground two weeks or more ahead of the rest (and a whole lot cheaper!!!)
That was the start of his conversion to minimum tillage farming.
The local deer are also aware of the tiny little tidbits coming in.
So true....either way they feed on my crops.....usually the first couple of rows of corn are stripped around the nice bedding area in the back of our place.....I'm OK with the trade off. Usually two or more of them end up in my freezer !
The guy that rents and farms my acreage is a proponent of no till farming. Here in Michigan the planting season can start pretty late and waiting for the ground to dry to optimum moisture for tilling could set him back several weeks. He seems to do quite well with this system. Bob
Corn around here ,eastern nc is doing well with the recent rains .Most is 5 to 6 foot and will be tassleing soon . A few folks already habe early sweet corn coming off .
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we live in th ecountry ( well not far from town 10 miles or so ) but surrounded by farm land
any way with in just a few days of planting the corn was up a couple inches I am sure its been genetic modified countless times a friend local farmers ( several generations and growing ) and close friend to my youngest son says they have it now you choose to mature xx amount of days so if you plant you can do so with field A coming in on day B and field C coming in on day D well you get the picture to give you more time to harvest
" I am sure its been genetic modified countless times a friend local farmers ( several generations and growing ) and close friend to my youngest son says they have it now you choose to mature xx amount of days so if you plant you can do so with field A coming in on day B and field C coming in on day D well you get the picture to give you more time to harvest"
A corn plant's "maturity" has nothing to do with GMO nor is this anything new. Farmers can choose "maturity" (based on heat unit input) that meets their climate and/or planting date and hoped for harvest period. Same with soybeans--we choose slightly differing maturity seed in order to spread both flowering and harvesting periods.