www.Farms.com/UsedFarmEquipment 81 July 2024 | Ontario GPS Ontario finding a resistance being created in your fields to the spray. Then you may not get the results you are expecting. Nothing new here but good old farmers “COMMON SENSE”. I am looking for your help this summer in evaluating the growing ability of corn and soybean plants. For the past 3 years we have been researching the crops ability to reproduce seeds on the plant with bigger bushel weights and higher starch contents. We have all seen that as a corn cob matures the kernels develop and fill with juice. Then during the dry down the kernels will filled with white corn starch. We may or may not have taken note that the kernels in the bottom four or five rows, and the kernels in the top four or five rows, are plump full skin, and the middle of the cob has the dinted kernels. The more dinted kernels ratio to full skin kernels, becomes a hit on your bushel weight going across the scales. The micro-managing theory that I am working on, is to try to come up with a grown cob of corn that has full skin kernels up and down the whole cob. As I discussed in previous articles it does start with the availability of adequate, abundant, well positioned plant food at the root. The root has to have length, width and depth in the ground, to produce a basketball size root. This allows the plant to capture the plant food created by the microbes breaking down the cellulose and fertilizers on or in the soil. We have been seeing a larger stalk girth, full of juices, keeping the plant hydrated longer into the dry growing season. This results in a strong green colour in the stalk and leaves. The leaves are seemingly larger in length and width, which should be capturing more sunenergy and helping the plant to grow. If all these things are micro managed to their max, and maxed out, then an abundance of growing power is being pushed up into the one, two, or possibly three cobs growing on that corn stalk. Yes this is possible as seen on test plots in 2023. We know what we are looking for, and with your help and permission, I would like to look at your corn crop analyze how it is growing. To see if your results seem similar to my predictions or match what I am attempting to create. Sharing cropping techniques farmer-to-farmer, district-to-district or county-tocounty is important, and makes the data collected more powerful to analyze. For you who would allow me to view your growing crop, and ask some agronomy questions as to how it works on your farm, please contact me at my office. Networking is a successful farming practice. Morley Wallace Morley J. Wallace Owner of GPS Ontario Grow More with Less for Sustainable Farming morley@gpsontario.ca 613-489-2932 “Grow More with Advanced Better Management Pra + +
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