Oswald No-Till Farm Cleghorn, IA | In the higher elevations with irrigation in a dry climate, having reasonably full sun, seldom clouds and saturated soils, with cool nights makes for a pretty serious corn production environment. Daytime heat isn't a killer in the 90's with sufficient water available to keep the plant running.
Corn is a C4 warm season grass plant. Too cool early isn't good. During fill period too cloudly daytime with warm nights are all bad things. Add to that soil saturation it isn't good.
Most of the corn we grow in the U.S. is not tropical and doesn't like tropical rain forest conditions in my opinion. |
FC stone 165.8 corn and 44 beans
