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[JimBear]

How long is your corn you plant? Where are you located? I’m genuinely curious around here I grow group 5 and 4.5 soybeans

Corn is anywhere from 112 day to 118

That corn range is pretty standard around here, some guys will put in some 105 day.

I can’t recall any beans over 4.0 but I may be mistaken.

I did a soybean and corn plot by me for my own data and we’ll have around 60 entries in our show plot. 40 corn and 20 beans. I think we’ll be doing that one tomorrow. With four guys and a 12r planter it doesn’t take long. Two vacs at the end sucking seed out, one guy putting seed in and the planter guy records what’s going where. It doesn’t take as long as one would expect.

The key you have there is organization & good planning.

One seed guy will have other obligations & have to leave & it usually ends up being 3 of us, sometimes Chase magically disappears.

His father in law is always there but he just wants to video on his phone & told him to keep me off of faceplate or whatever other sites he was posting on.

After I dropped my pants & stuck my azz out the door, he finally got the point.

The last 2 years plots have been finished up in a down pour.

Maybe I am just cantankerous & obstinate but my patience with plot planting is non-existent.

 

[jakethesnake]

That corn range is pretty standard around here, some guys will put in some 105 day.

I can’t recall any beans over 4.0 but I may be mistaken.


The key you have there is organization & good planning.

One seed guy will have other obligations & have to leave & it usually ends up being 3 of us, sometimes Chase magically disappears.

His father in law is always there but he just wants to video on his phone & told him to keep me off of faceplate or whatever other sites he was posting on.

After I dropped my pants & stuck my azz out the door, he finally got the point.

The last 2 years plots have been finished up in a down pour.

Maybe I am just cantankerous & obstinate but my patience with plot planting is non-existent.

Yeah same with the corn and same with plots. I do my own research. I saw data get adjusted on a plot once also. I offered to do a plot several years ago but I was gonna put my stuff I knew and trusted in with it and they didn’t like that idea. Dekalb really impressed me this year with their offer though. Sounds like they truly believe they have something hot

68-35 is the number

 

[jakethesnake]

Hoping that will be my new one across the board Dekalb variety. Gonna put some under water and some dry land. Got a few acres in now like 20 or so.

 

[jakethesnake]

I’ve been a pioneer guy most all my life. They discontinued some of my absolute favorites last year so got more new stuff going in the ground than I prefer.

 

[jblnut]

This was looking at about half of last years show plot. It looks awesome from the road but is a ton of work lol.

 

[jblnut]

Any issues with wire worms in the corn that goes into the rye ground ?

Not that we’ve noticed yet.

That corn range is pretty standard around here, some guys will put in some 105 day.

I can’t recall any beans over 4.0 but I may be mistaken.


The key you have there is organization & good planning.

One seed guy will have other obligations & have to leave & it usually ends up being 3 of us, sometimes Chase magically disappears.

His father in law is always there but he just wants to video on his phone & told him to keep me off of faceplate or whatever other sites he was posting on.

After I dropped my pants & stuck my azz out the door, he finally got the point.

The last 2 years plots have been finished up in a down pour.

Maybe I am just cantankerous & obstinate but my patience with plot planting is non-existent.

It takes some time but with the right crew it isn’t bad. We tossed 18 varieties in my grain plot yesterday morning in less than an hour.

When we do customer plots we tell them there will be four people there or they will be doing it on their own. We’ve never had an issue yet. I bring the vac rig and we get after it.

I saw data get adjusted on a plot once also. I offered to do a plot several years ago but I was gonna put my stuff I knew and trusted in with it and they didn’t like that idea.

I ran the combine in a big mixed plot last year that had six brands represented. When we got the data from the other five brands every single one had at least one variety that had been adjusted up from what the weigh wagon read. I always come out of the combine and write the numbers down and the one guy got all fiesty when I popped out the first time “what you don’t trust me?” he says. “Well now I don’t !”

When I called one guy on adjusting things he says “the ground is so varied here and it should have done better”. WTF dude . That’s not how it works ! You show the data as it is and call out “variable soil” or whatever else lol.

 

[jakethesnake]

Yeah I agree. That’s why I do my own data. Well this variety didn’t get started out good it was a bit cool and damp…. Right…

 

[JimBear]

Yeah I agree. That’s why I do my own data. Well this variety didn’t get started out good it was a bit cool and damp…. Right…

From what I am hearing with Chase’s results & seeing with my brothers, todays corn genetics can tolerate it.

Chase’s early planted corn last year was 10-15 bu/acre better than the later stuff we put.

My brothers results for the last 2 years have been significantly larger, his early planted corn into cooler ground temps with some cold rains on it after planting out yielded the later planted by about 25bu/acre.

I am talking about plant date not maturity date of the hybrids, same hybrid’s different plant dates.

Plants dates for “early” corn were week 1 & 2 of April, late plant dates were week 4 April into 2 week of May.

 

[jakethesnake]

Soybean year plot is done !! I’ve got everything in our lineup from 0.6-1.9 both Enlist and ExtendFlex. An 0.6 is pretty early for us and a 1.9 is getting a little ways out there. We planted all 1.3 and 1.5’s on the rest of the acres. Well, there are 20 acres of some 1.8’s I snuck in to see how they do since we’re planting beans first.
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Low acre, one owner Deere 1760 that’s only been outside when it’s planting. Be a shame to get rid of it but I’d like to go to electric drives and a 16 row. I’m not quite ready to shell out the $$$$$$$$ for it yet so we’ll see lol
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If you didn’t need a larger planter you could just upgrade to electric drive. That’s what I did with my kinze. Well I’m a liar I just switched to a different setup but yeah. Might be a cheaper option and you could keep the planter.