Telling photo of soil nutrient content (UPDATED)

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07-30-2007, 12:49 AM

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Hotburn76

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

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ORIGINAL: Bols
On the same token,corn which is tall,does not necessarily translate into higher yields.

I remember one year seeing the land owner I was hunting at debate with his son whether they should cut there green corn and sell as silage one year since it was "to tall". We had a banner spring and early summer a couple of years ago and his corn was about eight feet tall. But we never had hardly any rain after the first of July and when his corn put on it ears they where only about 4 to 5 inches long. He said a big plant takes alot of water to keep just the plant alive, and then if the rains slack up when the ears fill out you end up with a bad crop. Said they would get more money if they cut it for silage. First I had ever heard it, but his ears did look small on such big corn.

07-30-2007, 05:09 AM

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

I think you guys missed the point. I'm not really discussing corn, here. I'm pointing out how nutrituous the midwest soil "products" are to the animals that eat them.

07-30-2007, 05:34 AM

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

nice to see someones getting rain.

07-30-2007, 07:31 AM

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

How'd you like to try to hunt phseants in that corn....

07-30-2007, 08:01 AM

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drhntr178

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

GMMAT, wheres your photos for comparison?

07-30-2007, 08:08 AM

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

Heck...I forgot. Anyways.....the photos are not as bad as what I'd thought. Our corn here is growing better than I thought. I'm 6' tall.

The sheer size of the pants (rather than the height) is what got me. We grew up growing corn....and I've never seen leaf so big....or stalks with that much girth (as in the original photo I started the thread with).

Anyways....this was our corn, Saturday. (OK....I didn't downlod them....but I'll retrive and download them at lunch). Sorry.

07-30-2007, 08:11 AM

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GR8atta2d

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

I'm sure theres a point. But by comparison I could post some NC "Bacca" (tobacco for true yanks) and then post an Ohio "bacca" field... and yours would look fuller &greener. What useful deer data could we draw from that comparison?

07-30-2007, 08:12 AM

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

that deer in ohio have better chew

07-30-2007, 08:14 AM

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RE: Telling photo of soil nutrient content

I don't know. What type of tobacco are you growing, there? Flu-cured? Burly? Our planting season for tobacco is earlier than yours (if you're growing flu-cured).....so our tobacco's been in the ground, longer. I would think the fact that our corn has been growing longer....and still doesn't hold a candle to yours....would only bolster my assessment....but it wasn't based on science. I made the "observation" not to prove a point (a point I think we all concede). It was made to bolster a fact.