We haven’t had enough consecutive dry days to get much corn planted early this spring and it looks like producers who want to stay with their intended corn acres will likely be wrapping up in May.  Most areas in Tennessee have not received the heavy rains that soaked other states but wet is still wet regardless of the total rainfall amounts.  I have talked with some growers who are about 50% planted and waiting for 3 or 4 good dry days to show significant progress.  Continue reading →

The warm weather bursts we are having in between rains have helped get what corn that is planted out of the ground much quicker than usual for April and that has reduced our replant situations.  And our corn is much too small to be a target for damaging wind and hail.  I know that folks are checking corn stands in fields that have gone through several rains between planting and emergence.  The following table lists the row lengths to count plants for a population estimate in 1/1000th of an acre.  Continue reading →