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Johnny Verell with extreme Ag. I'm out here today checking on a corn field that we kind of planted late.
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We actually planted this corn behind some wheat, so it's double cropped corn. It was planted about the
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10th of June and we're out here today. We've been watering it some. And you know, another interesting thing we're doing out here
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and just kind of looking at seeing how the corn's coming along is the, uh, the way we planted this corn.
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You know, this is actually in a skip row pattern. So we planted two 30 inch rows and skipped a row, planted two more rows,
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skipped a row all the way across, and all we did was take the population from the skip row and add it to the rows on each side of it.
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So this corn's planted in the 45 to 48,000 range right here where we're at on skip row thirties.
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So it's got two rows in a skip and it looks really good. You know, there's a lot of things
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that I think we could do different to really help it out going into next year. We might actually, uh, change of
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how we're putting the fertility out here on this, but overall it looks really good. It's, uh, you know, about the middle of August right now,
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so this corn's probably gonna start tasseling here in the next seven days or so.
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So it's, it's rolling on pretty good and hope to see how it looks here in a few more weeks, but right now I'm pretty pleased with it.
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We got good weed control. Everything's going just like we want as far as that goes. And we're getting ready to put a, uh, tassel shot, uh,
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fungicide and foliar pack on this corn and try to push it on as hard as we can. As you can see here, we got this skip road.
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You can see where the planter actually went down through there, you know, and left a little little row where it did not plant down through there.
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And you see on the sides you can see it's pretty thick. You know, you got corn on both sides. That's planted at a pretty high population,
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but looks really good. Wheat controls good. There's a sprig of wheat here and there, but that's about the only thing I've seen out here.
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But it looks good and we just hope to keep pushing it. You know, one of the beautiful things is, is this was planted in right
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behind the wheat being harvested. So you got all this residue out here and we put a stubble digester on this residue to try
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to help break it down and start freeing up the nutrients that are tied up in the residue there.
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But also look at the amount of residue that's help holding the moisture right now. And you know, this is a skip
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and you can see there's very little sunlight getting down here into this canopy.
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It hadn't fully closed yet, but it, it is, it's cool down in here this morning. It's in the mid sixties right now, which is awesome
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for us down here in Tennessee this time of year. But, uh, it looks really good and, you know, keep the water to it
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and hopefully get a good rain along the way here. And I think we'll have some good results.