[AT] Check planting
Beal Gleason
farmerbeal at aol.com
Sat Dec 29 19:06:48 PST 2007
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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> Subject: Re: [AT] Check planting
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>> 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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