[AT] Check planting

[charlie hill]

Thanks Farmerbeal,  that gives me a better image of what it looked like. 
You didn't just have one stalk of corn in that "check".  That makes sense.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Beal Gleason" <farmerbeal at aol.com>
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 10:06 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting


> We planted in 40" rows with hills spaced 40" in the row and 3 seeds
> per hill. That gave a plant pop. of 11,880 per A. We got yields of 60
> to 70 bu. average. If we had a good field we planted 4 seeds per hill
> and if we had a poor field we dropped to  2 seeds per hill. Are yield
> went according.
>
> Farmerbeal
>
>
> On Dec 27, 2007, at 8:00 AM, charlie hill wrote:
>
>> Thanks Jack,   I guess I need to see a picture of it or something.
>> The way I have it figured if you check plant in 30 inch rows then the
>> spacing in the row between plants would also have to be 30".  That
>> would
>> give you a plant population of only about 6970 plants per acre.
>> All corn
>> that I know of is either single or double cross, meaning it has
>> either one
>> or two ears per stalk.  (Seems like I've heard something about
>> triple cross
>> corn but I've never seen any.)
>> I just don't understand how you could have a reasonable yield that
>> way.
>>
>> Don't misunderstand.  I'm not saying it was a bad way to do it.
>> I'm just
>> trying to understand the process.  Did you maybe plant more than
>> one stalk
>> per "check" if I can call it that?  Maybe per "hill" would be a
>> better way
>> to say it.  I can see where the extra room would maybe make the
>> stalks grow
>> better but that doesn't always translate into bigger, fuller
>> ears.   Also
>> allowing the extra sunlight into the crop canopy (because of the wide
>> spacing) would seem to me to cause a problem with late season weeds.
>>
>> This same topic was discussed here a few years ago.  I didn't
>> understand the
>> concept then and just decided to explore it a bit more this time.
>> I'm not
>> trying to turn it  into an arguement.  Just want to get a clear mental
>> picture of what the field looked like.
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jack Hollon" <jvhollon at greenhills.net>
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>> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:12 PM
>> Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting
>>
>>
>>> Charlie
>>> I'm sure you will get a lot of different answers but the long and
>>> short of
>>> it is cultivating. You can go north and south one time then  45
>>> it. That
>>> will get all the weeds.
>>> Jack in north west Mo.
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