Yield
What really makes yield per acre? It’s not plant population—that’s merely one component.
Balance prices and soil health for success.
“I’ve seen some fields with 20-bu. per acre corn that wasn’t getting picked up. We’re leaving too much corn on the cob,” says Ken Ferrie, Farm Journal Field Agronomist.
Cornfields that had promised above-average or record yields, prior to being affected, are now more likely to produce average results at harvest.
Iowa’s corn yield estimate dropped by about five bu. per acre compared to 2019, soybean pods per 3X3 square barely squeaked ahead of 2019 by 40 pods.
Syngenta says the long residual control offered by Acuron GT will allow farmers and retailers to apply it in a post application before weeds can emerge and compete with the crop.
Analysts on the Pro Farmer Crop Tour say 2020 is different than the rest.
Compaction layers you create now could take a huge yield bite out of your 2022 corn crop.
When David Monk, 78, lost the best yielding corn of his life to fire, he took the loss on the chin and remained a farmer grateful for his community.
