Farming Video | Corn Emergence Issues After Heavy Rainfall
15 Apr 251m 51s

Johnny Verell takes us into the field to show how over 12 inches of rain impacted corn emergence just days after planting into soybean and wheat residue.

00:00:00 Came out here today to kind of walk around and look at this corn field that we planted almost two weeks ago tomorrow. 00:00:05 And so this field here was uh, double crop soybeans and wheat last year. So we had a wheat crop and then a a bean crop. 00:00:11 And we came in and planted this corn crop into this residue and didn't disturb anything. And when they started calling 00:00:16 for rain, we decided we were gonna quit. So we planted a couple days and just shut off. And it was almost five days, six days 00:00:22 before it actually started raining. And we ended up getting somewhere around 12 to 14 inches of rainfall on this farm. 00:00:26 And everybody's like, well, the corn's been in the ground long enough, it's gonna be 00:00:29 all right and everything's gonna be good. And then you get to looking around and you're able to pick up corn seed off the ground 00:00:36 that's sprouted some places the corn seed's still in the ground and the chute came up and the corn's coming up 00:00:42 and you can look right there and you can see the root too. So we know that's not gonna be good 00:00:45 'cause you ain't, it's just everything about that plant's been compromised. So, you know, we got some pretty major issues going on 00:00:51 and trying to figure out what caused it. We had our trash movers raised up there, just barely tickling the ground. 00:00:55 And what we've came down to, the thing we like most about our planter, that's not a true John Deere part, 00:01:01 is the fur force closing system on it. What we like about it is it always breaks the sidewalls down, makes it good and loose, 00:01:07 gets all the air outta the ground. But one thing we've noticed is it loosens it up when we get these tremendous rainfall events like 00:01:13 we've had this past week. The water starts running right down the road, right down the trench where the seed was 00:01:18 and it causes it to blow out. You know, and I'm not gonna say it wouldn't have happened with any other type of closing system, 00:01:23 I think it would've happened with anything, but it's just kind of disheartening as pretty as this field was planting to 00:01:28 be having the issues we are now. And literally every 30 inches across here, it's got a strip of bare ground. 00:01:32 It literally just goes down to as deep as the cultures are running on the seed opener on the disc, openers on the planter there. 00:01:38 So it's kind of crazy how that happened. This don't normally ever happen like this for us, but it is a mess and you know, it's a learning experience 58 00:01:45.005 --> 00:01:46.405

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