The decaying alfalfa took out moisture and then it was a dry year on top of it. One of the fears I always had when I planted corn into old alfalfa stubble was a dry year.
Corn on corn will need more moisture and you don't have any or very little subsoil moisture so it kind of a guess whether corn will do well or not. On dry years corn on corn doesn't do well but we don't know what the future rainfall will be. I'm going to have some corn-on-corn this year but I'm questioning my wisdom cause I'm just as dry as you are.
Insect wise, you might be bothered by rootworms and they can be controlled by insecticide in-furrow during planting or you can plant a BT corn, but with BT you'll still need to plant some non-BT for a refuge. Looks to me like non-BT with insecticide is the way for you to go with a small acreage. You could chance it without insecticide but this mild winter was kind to the bugs so the rootworms might come out with a vengeance this summer.
I guess I might not have answered your questions completely with my ramabling but those are some things to think about. There's no perfect answer. We just have to go by averages. Jim
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