I mentioned a couple of posts ago that our corn had been growing quickly and had reached over twelve feet (close to 4 metres).
M picked these ears of corn the other day to do a kernel count and was pretty pleased with the yield indications.
He doesn't count each kernel on the ear, the easy way to do it is to count the number of rows (always an even number - in this case 16) and the number of kernels in any row (from bottom to top - in this case an average of 38) giving 608 kernel per ear.
With a 30,000 plant population in our corn field the easy method is to divide 608 by three to get a yield estimate- in this case 203 bushels per acre.
Got it?
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| 2013 Corn |
Even a novice like me can see that it is better than last years crop.
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| 2012 Corn- disaster |
On Saturday a car load of 7 farmers from NE Iowa driving through western Illinois, stopped at our farm for lunch and to view our corn on their way to join the Pro Farmer crop tour.
They commented that our corn had the highest yield check they had seen so far.
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| Farmers on tour |
All this talk of corn is telling me I must make roasted sweetcorn risotto this week!
