If I have a lot of weeds in my corn is it still possible to
Grow cobs. It's in a food plot, about 2.5 aces acres of corn
It's RR although the roundup didn't seems to do a tone of damage,
Must have went too fast. Now the corn is too tall and I run it over when I try to spray it with gater.
Will the corn canopy over and will the weeds subsiside and corn grow cobs?

If it has nitrogen and water it will still make something. It looks green, so it must have nitrogen now if it don't run out. We used to pick corn that was good corn only the weeds would wrap around the rolling cutters and we would have to cut it out with a knife often. Now cockleburs was a different story and hurt yield worse.

If it is just a food plot and you don't plan to harvest it I wouldn't worry about it a whole lot. A weedy field has more attraction than a weed free field for wildlife. If the weeds start to totally overtake your corn a backpack sprayer would work good to clear out some weeds.

Huh? Where are the weeds? I’ve ran corn where ragweed was taller than the combine. Legit

Your about 7-10 days from a good canopy which will really slow weed growth. At this time you mostly have grass and mostly in the row. Grass is not going to remove as much nutrient or compete as much with the corn as pigweed, lambsquarter etc. Most of those weeds will come heavy in mid to late July so you may not have too many of those. If you have good fertility you should get decent ear set with the competition you have going on now. The corn will out grow the grass and get the sun etc. You look to be on schedule for early August silking and tassling and I would worry more about adequate moisture during that time then the weeds for your usage.
The corn plant will use over 50% of the total nutrients it uses to set and fill ears so you want a good late summer.

Bryce

Ok thanks for the info, I will see how it goes and try and spray some with backpack sprayer and will make sure to
Give it more nitrogen. I'll Post some pics as the summer progresses

The main reason for wanting to control weeds is to not build up your seed bank so much that weeds choke out what you intend to grow. Another thing you can do is use a grain drill and plug every other opening etc. and plant 15 inch rows or say 21 inch rows if you intend to drive through a time or two they will canopy much quicker. You could also plant a short stem type grain sorghum. Those do well in narrower rows and the grain heads provide good feed for many species as well.

Bryce

Some of our crops around this area are weeds this year, too wet to be planted with corn/beans.

i plant oats with my corn

I planted food plots on CRP for over 25 years for myself and others. Worked for 34 yrs. for USDA and did consulting on the side and yours (corn) looks just fine from a wildlife stand point. If you want to really get "into" the food plot evaluation results, go check the plot in March and examine 100' of random row lengths for ear usage. You should be able to count ears and have 10-15% partial or unused corn on cob ears left at that time (no matter their size). If more than 15% you have too much acreage or too good of yield and if less, maybe increase your bu./ac by weed control and fertilizer or plant more acreage (if possible). Not familiar with your winters but early March to the south and later March further north. Do this for a few years and you will get a good grasp on the winter food needs for the local wildlife. Consulting fee waved LOL so good luck with it. PM if you want to see some picts sometime..... the mike

If its a food plot whats so great about your corn compared to all the other corn fields? i.e. my deer spot is surrounded by fields. 1,000 of acres of corn. The last thing I would use to attract them in to my spot is more corn. See what I'm saying. So I try to be differen't. Make my few acre plot somewhere where they want to be for something out of the ordinary different and yummy that they want / crave. Maybe you don't have corn fields in Wisconsin though. I wouldn't know. Good luck.

Yes we have quite a few cornfield the difference is they harvest it and there is nothing left for them to eat by October

Mine is planted as a cover crop and will be brush hogged in December

Don't waste the sweat and money for the spray. If its a food plot it will be good enough........

Red ear clover with sugar beets and /or turnips would have been better (in my opinion) . What are they eating now ???? If you had planted what I said they would be in it every nite !!!!!! Clover gets them thru the summer and up until frost. The frost turns the beets to starch and they tear it up. The turnips give them a choice thru the winter. Just 2.5 acres of corn you are going to have a lot of ground that won't produce any feed. Average 1 ear per stalk and the plants that far apart.......What you can do is tiller between rows and sow the clover mix now. If you get the rain we are it will be up in 5 days. Saw a show on tv were herd managers were sowing beets and turnips from a helicopter in corn fields to give deer some feed during late summer....

2.5 acres of standing corn in my neck of the wood in December will
Be a gold mine for the Deer. I am going to plant turnips around the edge of the bottom of
Field soon.

My corn turned out great along with the beans I planted. I also planted
Clover/chickory and I haven’t had a deer in it yet. Brother in-law
Farmer counted kernels and figured about 150 bushel to acre.
I honestly don’t know why they aren’t eating the clover or chickory
We just purchased these 40’s so maybe there isn’t much deer in here

Here are a couple photos of the plots now
The road I planted in the pic is 3/4 of a mile long
Lol didn’t see a single place where deer were eating it

Don't know about the mast crop where you are but down here it was plumb dangerous walking under the oak trees. There are so many acorns on the ground that it's like walking on marbles. The deer will find your cornfield eventually. This is the time of plenty and there are many choices, Acorns just being one of them.

I like nut trees too ,squacks.