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This is kind of an update on our short corn. Alexander, you wanna tell 'em something about this short corn?
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It's definitely looking pretty crazy, that's for sure. I'm, I'm just glad it worked as good as it what it is right now, I guess.
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Well, I mean, and, and the idea is if you guys can see behind us, like what happens is, is there's only four rows in the center that we planted
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with short corn and we did it on a box planter and then we, you know, the other one, the other planter is bulk fill.
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So we kind of went in there and we kind of filled in spaces. So what what we're trying to do is, is we're trying
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to have a way that we can go in with a regular sprayer and spray anytime that we want. And this is set up on 120 foot centers.
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So it makes it easier for Alexander to go around and then, I mean, you don't even have, if you have auto steer anymore, nah.
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Just ride, just getting our own ride. Just Look for our short corn and ride. That's right. So I mean, basically with this field, the way
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that we got it set up, it's only 7% of the field that's actually short corn. So we realize that this corn is probably what we've seen
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so far is it, it doesn't yield quite as well, but if there's only 7% of the corn in the field that's like this out of the total field.
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So it's not really that big of a yield drag. But Yet we're also, we're saving that much if not more of what we're running over doing a small sprayer.
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Exactly. You know, so we can come in here with a regular sprayer and not have to get a high boy or whatever and come right in here and spray
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And just roll through. Yeah. But you know, the other part is, is you gotta realize now this is planted east to west.
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Yeah. So, you know, think about the way that the sun comes up and it goes down, you know, when you look at a solar panel,
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you know, when you talk about solar panels, they, they point 'em due south and the idea of that is, is to capture the most amount
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of sunlight as the sun comes up in the east, goes down in the west, it captures the most of it. So when you look at how this is planted east to west,
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so I mean if you look, you know there's an angle here, right? So the short corn is short,
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but alongside the short corn, it's still a little bit shorter than the regular corn on the outside edge because it's capturing more sunlight.
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That's the whole idea of It. It doesn't need to get As tall, it doesn't need to get as tall, it doesn't have to outrun everything else.
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So as you go down through here, like it kind of goes down and it kind of comes back up.
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And then also, you know, we talk about heat all the time and pollination problems, you know, if this corn is,
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you know, heat rises. So if this corn is short, it also, I'm hoping that we can capture a little bit of yield
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because we'll be able to let some of this heat outta this field and let some air flow. Yeah, I mean what do, what'd you plant this one at?
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38.5 I think. Okay. 38.5 39. So that's what the, the, I mean, and this is irrigated corn obviously.
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Um, and they think that you need to plant this short corn at a little bit of a higher population.
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We're generally in the 38.5 anyway. Yeah. On irrigated corn. So he went a little bit higher on,
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on the, uh, the population. But, um, they also think that, you know, with the bear short corn, they think that some of it ought
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to be around 44,000, uh, corn in, in our area. We've tried it, you know, tried to jump populations up and we just can't capture any more yield, you know,
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we just gotta, we gotta, we gotta keep those numbers down. So anyway, this is kind of the idea.
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The short corn is kind of an update on the short corn. It kind of gives you an idea of the, of the landscape of how it's gonna lay out.
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I'm glad that it worked out. Good. We're gonna follow this thing all the way through the season.
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