Late-Planted Double Crop Corn Trial Shows Promise with Skip Row Planting
5 Sep 242m 10s

Johnny Verell from XtremeAg checks on his double-cropped corn, planted behind wheat in early June using a skip row pattern. The unique planting method involves planting two 30-inch rows, skipping a row, and repeating the process. This approach allowed for a higher population density in the planted rows, with corn at a 45,000-48,000 population.

00:00 Johnny Verell with extreme Ag. I'm out here today checking on a corn field that we kind of planted late. 00:04 We actually planted this corn behind some wheat, so it's double cropped corn. It was planted about the 00:08 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 00:14 and just kind of looking at seeing how the corn's coming along is the, uh, the way we planted this corn. 00:18 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, 00:24 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. 00:30 So this corn's planted in the 45 to 48,000 range right here where we're at on skip row thirties. 00:36 So it's got two rows in a skip and it looks really good. You know, there's a lot of things 00:40 that I think we could do different to really help it out going into next year. We might actually, uh, change of 00:45 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, 00:51 so this corn's probably gonna start tasseling here in the next seven days or so. 00:55 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. 01:00 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, 01:06 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. 01:12 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. 01:18 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, 01:25 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. 01:30 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 01:35 behind the wheat being harvested. So you got all this residue out here and we put a stubble digester on this residue to try 01:40 to help break it down and start freeing up the nutrients that are tied up in the residue there. 01:44 But also look at the amount of residue that's help holding the moisture right now. And you know, this is a skip 01:48 and you can see there's very little sunlight getting down here into this canopy. 01:52 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 01:57 for us down here in Tennessee this time of year. But, uh, it looks really good and, you know, keep the water to it 02:03 and hopefully get a good rain along the way here. And I think we'll have some good results.

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