Posted by paul on May 26, 2016 at 20:30:20 from (66.44.132.180):
In Reply to: Field failure? posted by Dave H (MI) on May 26, 2016 at 13:47:06:
95-105 day corn is normal around here.
My cousin planted corn early, we got a cool spell and rain, he replanted 10-15 acres of peat ground he said only 7-10,000 plants an acre were coming up.
It rained and turned even colder then the first 1/3 of May, so he got seed to replant it a third time. Don't think he's gotten in the field yet, been too wet.
A neighbor has his corn planter parked at his landlords place, waiting for it to dry out enough to replant perhaps 1/3 of that farm, lots of oozing wet spots on it, can't see the corn.
Most of is had a bit to a lot of corn froze off to a brown mush in the teens of May, got to 28 degrees for 4 hours or more. But if it wasn't flooded in water, the corn has come back from that pretty good.
It is the combo of saturated wet ground and a bit too cold that puts it under here.
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