RE: Roundup Ready Corn Questions
 

I have three years experience with RR corn in ND. It is the easiest thing I have ever planted. First year I used an old two row corn planter and pulled it with my ATV. I was happy with the corn but not the plant density.

So I tried a wild experiment. First we had my brother deep till the soil. Then I put 100 lbs of nitrogen per acre down (broadcast). Then we used the ATV pulled broadcaster and broadcast the corn. NUTS is what all the farmers around me said. Then I worked the corn seed in to the soil using a 3 pt cultivator with a small harrow behind it. The corn came up. I hit it one time with my ATV sprayer with Roundup. I had 7 foot stalks with two and three cobs per stalk. Deer and pheasants loved it. It is a late season food source however.

We did the same thing this year, but we went right from breaking the land with chisel plow two operations and two disking operations to broadcasting and incorporating. worked like a charm.

Now that is easy.

RE: Roundup Ready Corn Questions
 

Plains Scout, thanks for the reply. Your success with RR corn is what I'm aiming for also. Whatever the soil test recommends for N-P-K is what I will give it. The Agri Center is only 4 miles away so no problems getting fertilizer or seed. A local friend isa food plot guru and has all the equipment needed so I will be able to plant in rows. When the weather gets right, hopefully the 1st of April, my plan is to spray with glyco, wait 2 weeks, disc,broadcast the fertilizer, disc and plant. Approx 3 weeks later spray glycol again and then hope for timely rains. Does this process sound right to all those that plant row crops? Don't want to waste time
or be wrong as this is my first attempt at growing anything other than clovers and other legumes the past 5 years. Thanks again for all the advice.

RE: Roundup Ready Corn Questions
 

i'm not an expert. but i would skip the first glypho application. just broadcast the fert and disk it in. then plant when the time is right. spray a few weeks later. this way you've eliminated a few steps.

RE: Roundup Ready Corn Questions
 

I would also agree with skipping the first spray and just disk. Unless the ground is too wet to get on to disk, then I would spray if the weeds have started growing. That is a key with 'gly', the weeds have to be actively growing for it to work.

RE: Roundup Ready Corn Questions
 

Right now this 5 acres is covered with some grasses and broadleaf weeds since it was idle in 06. A good deep disking will give me a good seedbed to plant the corn. Just didn't know wether to spray first since these weeds will be actively growing again in early April. Makes sense to me to eliminate the first spraying though because the spraying 3 weeks after planting is the important one. I just want nice clean rows when its all done. Thanks again for the advice.

RE: Roundup Ready Corn Questions
 

I just visited the biologic site. They now sell a herbicide specifically for BioMaxx, which is RR corn and beans mixed together. I am going to try this in one of my plots this year.