Machinery companies spend millions of dollars trying to design corn planters that make a perfect stand. Uniformity of seed placement is crucial. Spacing, depth, coverage and seed to soil contact are all important to ensure a stand of corn comes up out of the ground evenly and there's a reason for that. One plant will overshadow and stunt it's neighbor if they don't emerge on the same day and will have a dramatic effect on yield.
Volunteer corn on the other hand is laying on top of the ground and will sprout over a number of months every time you have a rain event sufficient enough to sprout a few more. If the corn was actually "planted" in the fall vs. laying on top of the ground, it would sprout right off then die when it got cold unless you planted when the ground was near froze to keep it from sprouting. Winter wheat and rye will sprout but go into a dormancy and even then can often winter kill come spring if conditions aren't right. Of course I'm talking about the Dakotas here, not Kansas or Missouri. Even if a corn plant could be bred to go dormant and survive a winter in frozen ground, the chances of it all "taking off" again on the same day are pretty nil. Interesting concept though.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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