Posted by bradley martin on August 29, 2018 at 18:45:32 from (184.151.36.17):
Last week, I attended a crop information meeting. One of the speakers said that new research coming out of the Midwest universities is showing a yield advantage to planting corn 3" deep as opposed to the traditional 2" depth. He claimed it results in more even emergence due to less temperature and moisture variation. While the deeper planted corn takes several days longer to emerge, more of it comes through the ground within 12 hours of its neighboring plants. If any of you have heard Randy Dowdy of Georgia speak about growing 500 bushel corn, you know that he firmly believes that is critical. There was a demonstration plot where the speaker was talking. They had marked emerged plants every 12 hours with different colored flags over a 4 day period in the spring and graphed it showing the more concentrated emergence of the deeper planted corn. The ears on the deeper planted corn appeared to be more uniform than the shallower planted plot. A lot of growers in the audience were pretty concerned that the deeper planting would be a disaster if a cold, wet spell followed planting. Have any of you heard of this research, or better yet, tried the deeper planting? If I remember correctly, the research he quoted was done in Illinois and Missouri. I found it a very interesting presentation.
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