Just finished running corn yesterday evening. The 31 acre very rolling field was planted April 24-25 with NK68B LL seed. As this land is over 50 miles from our a majority of our crop land I planted it with an IH 800 Cyclo planter that I picked year before last for $800 and spent very little on before using it. It was no tilled. Due to wet weather was not able to spray until May 5 when corn was already up. Herbicide program was 1 pt Ignite, 1 qt atrazine. It scaled out over 200 bpa. Lodging was almost nonexistant. My conclusion is that good luck, good weather and good seed can make even a mediocre farmer like myself have pretty decent yields. Merry Christmas to all.
Edited by howmuchisenough 12/24/2009 06:09
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