HuntingNet.com Forums - View Single Post - Two Corn Plots- last post 10-19-04
View Single Post
Old 08-08-2004 | 08:06 PM
  #27  
farm hunter's Avatar
farm hunter
Nontypical Buck
 
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 2,973
Likes: 0
From: cazenovia, NY USA
Default RE: Two Corn Plots- Update 7-25

Dan -

For the corn - I did just one spraying - at 4 weeks after planting on 6/19 - that was it for the corn.

I used Roundup Ultra Max - it was not cheap! - but I only had to use 20oz/acre. My Co-op did not have any Generic - and I wasn't sure I wanted to experiment with a generic Glyphosate the first time anyhow.

As soon as the weeds died off, and the Urea was spread around the 4th of July - the growth was excellent. In fact it grew so fast that by 7/18 - I could not drive the tractor + sprayer wothout knocking over the corn. I probably should have sprayed again when I broadcast the urea on the 4th - but there seemed to be almost no new germination. I went back and spot sprayed a couple spots the sprayer missed - but I don't think it had much effect on the corn at that point (7/18). So if you look - you'll see some ragweed in the full grown RR corn - but not much to worry about.

For the Beans I sprayed Twice - Once 6-19 and again on 7/18. I don't think I'll spray again, even if some weeds come in - Right now the beans look very good - except they are being browsed ALOT by the deer - Just like I hoped.

For the Cultivated plot - I used no chemical weed control - only a 3pt hitch manual cultivator - and I cultivated twice 6/18 and around the 4th of July.

Ron - I paid $80 for the two bags I bought - I only ended up planting one bag (i hope the other will be good next year still). Sounds like they made a little off me, but overall I cannot complain about the costs. Maybe next year you can point me in the right diercetion though for corn & beans?

Thanks again everyone.

FH
farm hunter is offline  
Reply