Corn planting help.
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05/18/19 09:14 PM
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jeremy brua
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This is my first year planting more than a small patch of corn. I bought an old two row planter that the fertilizer boxes rusted off and was replaced with a pump and a tank for liquid fertilizer, it sprays right into the seed bed. I was given a drum of 17-8-0 and one of 32-0-0. Which one should I use? I'm going to plant some open pollinated feed corn and sweet corn.
Thank you.
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Re: Corn planting help.
[Re: jeremy brua]
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05/18/19 09:21 PM
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17-8-0 will be better than 32%. 32% will burn the seed a will not germinate. 17-8-0 is high in nitrogen too, but a little safer. Get it under the seed, in the bottom of the furrow. Use about 4 gallons per acre. For the 32% use that later dribbled between the rows when the corn is up about 8 inches. 10 gallons to the acre.
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Re: Corn planting help.
[Re: jeremy brua]
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05/18/19 09:24 PM
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I would recommend these applications for a starter. After corn is up a foot or so then more nitrogen is needed. To start more phospherus should be applied. Under most situations, a combination of nitrogen and phosphorus constitutes an effective starter material. Liquid 10-34-0 and dry 18-46-0 are common starter fertilizer materials. Liquid 7-21-7 and dry 8-32-16 are also commonly used. (nitrogen(N) - phosphorus(P) - potassium(K)
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Re: Corn planting help.
[Re: jeremy brua]
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05/20/19 11:00 PM
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I just use compost, lime, rabbit manure, and urine
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Re: Corn planting help.
[Re: jeremy brua]
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05/20/19 11:48 PM
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Get a soil test to find out what your soil needs instead of asking strangers.
Plant it right or you are wasting time, fuel, and seed. If done right a relatively small patch of sweet corn can bring a good cash yield.
Spray to keep the weeds out.
I used to grow 2 acres each year and sold it all locally. I planted about 1/2 acre for a good friend. I put electric fence around mine. 3 rows very low to keep out young geese, raccoons, possums, and groundhogs. A couple more rows to keep deer out. A couple times daily I would shoot crows and blackbirds.
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Re: Corn planting help.
[Re: jeremy brua]
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05/21/19 09:27 AM
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For corn you need nitrogen for ever how many bushels per acre you are aiming at growing. I always replace the phosphate and potash that the targeted yield will remove. I just broadcast dry urea, phosphate, and potash, Lime or PH might be a reason to get a soil test, but if your a gambler just put some on suit to taste. I wouldn't worry about putting any thing on with the planter except the seed, unless your ground is completely depleted of nutrients the first year or two, then it would would probably boost your yield. But only put in on beside the row a couple inches and deeper than your seed. You can google up some university charts to tell you how much nutrients your yield will require and/or remove from the soil.
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Re: Corn planting help.
[Re: jeremy brua]
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06/12/19 08:15 AM
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Thank you everyone. I set up the planter to spray a few inches to the side and I cut the 17-8-0 about 1/3 with water and got it all in right before it poured so I doubt the fertilizer did more than washed away. The op corn is 89 day and the sweetcorn is 67 so I'm sure it will all tassel at the same time. Lol
don't worry over the smart ones. catch the dumb ones, they pay the same.
i can do it because i dont know that i cant.
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Re: Corn planting help.
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06/12/19 08:30 AM
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Born and raised and still on the farm. No one ever gets soil tests done where I’m from but deer plot guys because that’s what the commercials say to do. Yes they’re helpful, yes as a professional farmer I’ve got soil samples on my fields. But Never has anyone I’ve ever known got soil samples for their garden or truck patch. First tip- don’t plant where nothing grows. Second tip- find most luxurious growth of grass and weeds that’s where garden goes. Third tip- hog,chicken, cattle manure is your fertilizer, simply work it in. I like the way you think - manure is awesome.
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