Corn at dent stage. Plant health and some yield estimates

[@billking5407]

Thanks for sharing ,nice video, just planted up here about 3 weeks ago, very dry here

[@DylanJoyceFarms]

I have my doubts about the pro-farmer method. Their yield estimates always come in high. I use (population x rows x length / 100). Most of our corn is 16x35 this season at a pop of 30K. ((16*35*30)/100)=168bpa, which is in line with our typical yields. We were too stressed when our corn was setting ear size for a good yield this year.

[@TwoHappyChildrenFarm]

That's probably a good sound method. I kept getting problems when I used 80 or 90 in the formula. Congrats on the healthy ear counts.

[@robertreznik9330]

I have no doubles. What I do is reduce the vacuum until the monitor population starts to go down then increase the fan to get a few inches extra of water column so as not to have any skips! We have had 10 to 13" of rain since May 1st. following pre-irrigation of 3". We still need to plant 800 acres of corn! Will need to go to 103 day rating with this late planting and have a top yield of 240 bu/ac. My dry land wheat is at milk stage.

[@robertreznik9330]

Your corn must be mature on the 8th of July. My wheat in north Texas south of Colorado still likes 10 more days. The dryland corn is at V5 with a full moisture profile that should take the crop to maturity.

[@TwoHappyChildrenFarm]

Just about spot on. We are at 2950 gdus on 7/11 and 18% moisture. Went from an average length of 7.5 inches to 6.5 inches with no rain and 100s since May 29. We can't go from v5 to mature here on a full profile with the heat of June, wish we could. I did though get some April 18 sweet corn to sneak through by June 24 in spite of the conditions. Good luck up there.

[@robertreznik9330]

@@TwoHappyChildrenFarm We planted 3 with 6" apart then 7' between the 3. We can make 280 bu/ac irrigated 30,000 and 60 bu/ac in dryland with this spacing. If we planted 13,000 then the yield could be 110 or failure.