Southeast Colorado | karlyndale - 1/12/2025 21:33
Dryland here gets planted at 23,000 on solid row 30s, irrigated at 45-50,000 on 36 inch rows,
I personally have been lowering my population, I'm down to 40,000 on irrigated and thats not my yield limiting factor yet.
30,000 should be enough seed for 2.5 bale.
I've custom harvested skip row and the yields have always been lower, but west tx does a 2 30 inch rows and then a 50 inch skip. That's definitely better than a 74 inch skip on 38s.
I personally don't like skiprow, I would go wide row before skips.
I know basically nothing about cotton. But I've dabbled quite a bit with skip row corn through the years and researched it as well. My conclusion was that skip row with any crop has benefits the further north in our country you are. You've got too much open ground evaporation as you go south. My own opinion is that anybody south of I-70 will see no benefit...........and probably actually see harm by using skip row. The one thing that may be beneficial............is if you alternate planting between the skipped area and the planted area from year to year........and that allows you to plant every year instead of fallowing. But a guy only has so many years to figure this out...........and conditions are so variable from year to year...........so I just kind of gave up and quit skip row. |
Cotton post below ?
