Hello,

I thought I'd post the progress of these two corn plots as the summer goes by. This is our 5th year planting corn, but this year we planted one plot with regular field corn (plus some sweet corn for us) - and the other plot with Roundup Ready Corn & Soybeans. The traditional plot will require mechanical cultivation, and of course we will spray the RR plot.

We planted 5/22/04 - which is about right on time for Central NY.

This is the traditional plot 6/19 - Prior to First Cultivation



and later the same day -after cultivated



You can see that many weeds still remain in the rows with the corn, though cultivating reduces the competition considerably. Around July 4th we will cultivate again, and apply 200 lbs/acre of Urea (46-0-0) by broadcasting it over the corn.

And Dan O. - This is the same field as the Sunflower plot last year - I've seen several volunteer sunflowers, but really not the mass of them I expected. We'll see as the plot matures how many come along.

On the RR plot - I have two "before spraying" pictures - below:

RR Corn - 6/18 - (Sprayed on 6/19)



RR Soybeans - this is about a 1/2 acre strip in between twoacres of corn - (also sprayed 6/19)



I'll get some pictures this weekend to campare the after spraying results. When I was there on 6/25, the weeds were getting very yellow looking but I did not take pictures yet.

I hope you all enjoy the chronology. It should give me a chance to reveiw
my procedures, and hopefully gain a little insight from others.

Thanks
FarmHunter