Producers with high corn production costs per bushel tended to have both lower than average yields and higher than average corn costs per acre. Corn producers in the Heartland and Prairie Gateway had lower corn production costs per bushel than corn producers in the Northern Crescent and Southeast....
Maximum Production Is No.1 Maximum production is the most important increment of farm profitability. When growers produce maximum yields they have more bushels to protect, more bushels to market and more bushels to increase profit to their bottom line. That’s how important top yields are. Maximu...
76.5% reported they used Bt corn to increase yields. 11.3% used Bt corn to reduce their pesticide costs, and 3.3% did it to save on management time. 10% had “other” reasons. The latest survey indicated that actual Bt yields were 17 bushels more, seed use was ...
PROVEN® 40 produces more tons per acre while maintaining high-quality nutritional content.Same Starch, Same Energy Silage treated with PROVEN® 40 was on par with the untreated check in starch percentages, providing consistent energy density for a reliable feed source. More Feed Per Acre ...
Annual Crop Residue Production and Nutrient Replacement Costs for Bioenergy Feedstock Production in United States. Agron. J. 105, 685–692, doi:10.2134/agronj2012.0350 (2013). 26. U.S. Department of Energy. U.S. Billion-Ton Update: Biomass Supply for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry. ...
One dropped ear per 100 feet of row or two corn kernels per square foot or equals about 1 bushel per acre yield loss. The bottom line is that the longer corn stays in the field, the greater the likelihood of substantial field losses and complications. Lodging caused by storms can ...
Corn grain removes approximately 0.67 lbs of nitrogen per bushel harvested, and stover production requires about 0.45 lbs of nitrogen for each bushel of grain produced (IPNI, 2014). This means that the total N needed for a 300 bu/acre corn crop is around 336 lbs/acre. Only a portion of ...
Frost can also damage the growing crop, which must be protected at all costs.Corn needs 60–100 days without frost throughout its growing season, so it is still important to plant it early. Planting at a later time requires putting the seeds at a depth of two inches (5 cm) to prevent...
Variety selection Many common sweet corn and field corn cultivars can be used for baby corn production. There is no taste advantage in growing a sweet corn variety over field corn, since the ears are harvested before the sugars have an opportunity to accumulate. However, sweet corn cultivars...
These values are multiplied to generate an estimate of number of kernels per acre and should be relatively accurate, if you do your part. In order to estimate yield, you must also integrate kernel weight into the calculation. The problem with this method or any other variant for estimating ...