[AT] Growing Corn

[jtchall at nc.rr.com]

Wish we had some of that rain! Got 1/4" today, first in about 4 weeks. 
Theres quite a bit of corn that has tassled at around 6-8 ft tall--including 
mine. I screwed up planting and got my population too thin. Right now I am 
quite happy about it. The bottom leaves are burning off bad. Last year on 
the other hand we had so much rain the corn was as high as the combine cab 
in places and we were having trouble getting enough nitrogen on it to 
counter the leaching.

John Hall


-----Original Message----- 
From: John Slavin
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 10:58 AM
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Subject: [AT] Growing Corn

Hello all:

Hope everyone had a happy and safe 4th.

Talking about the rain, the corn is really putting the water and the humid 
temps to good use!  I take pictures of our crops just to document for my far 
flung children how the crops are doing. I haven't lived on the farm since 
high school, and instead live about 20 miles away, but was at my sister's 
house for the 4th so took the opportunity to walk out into the corn field. 
I couldn't believe it, the corn was near 7 foot tall.  I went back to my 
photo gallery and the last picture I took was on June 21 and the corn was a 
little less than knee high, which I'm approximating at 24 inches. 
72"-24"=48" grown divided by 13 days =3.69 inches of growth per day.  I 
guess that's really not that unusual, but I was really surprised. My dad 
always used to say you can hear corn growing.  You can take a look at the 
difference here:

https://www.icloud.com/photostream/#A25oqs3qobklH

The young lady is my daughter Sydney.

John Slavin
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