Corn

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Corn

• Uses
• 12 Silage
• 83 Feed, Seed
• 5 Mixed Feed

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Milled

• Wet Milled Starch, Syrups, Oils
• Dry Milled Meal, Flour, Hominy Grits, Breakfast
  Cereals, Corn nuts

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Corn Types

• Dent Silage, Grain
• Flint Hard
• Flour Indian Corn
• Sweet -
• Pop -
• Waxy Soft kernel, adhesives, baby food,
  puddings, pie filling, tapioca, clam chowder.
• Syrup - Karo

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Seed bed prep

• Fine, Firm, Moist
• Disk stubble 1-2x
• Chisel
• Disk 1x ring roller
• Pre-irrigate
• (Fertilize Dry)
• Disk 1-2x
• (NH3)
• Herbicide, Cross disk, Harrow
• Plant

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Seed bed Double crop

• Lime, Gypsum, Potash
• Disk 1x
• Chisel
• Disk 1x
• Pre Irrigate w/100 N
• Disk Herbicide
• Cross Springtooth
• Plant in 24 hours
• Ring Roll

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Seed bed single crop

• Fall
• Disk 2x
• Chisel 2x
• Plane 2x
• List
• Jan Cultivate Lilliston or alloway
• Spring Plant

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Fertilization Nutrient requirements for maximum
yields in corn

• Nitrogen 300-325 lbs.
• Phosphate 120 lbs.
• Potash 270 lbs.
• Sulfur 40-45 lbs.
• Magnesium 50 lbs.
• Calcium 60 lbs.
• Iron 3 lbs.
• Manganese 2.5 3 lbs.
• Zinc .5 lbs.

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Herbicides

• Sutan
• Bladex
• Lasso
• Atrazine
• 2,4-D
• Poast
• Dual
• Eradicane

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Heat Units/Degree Days

• 1400-1500 to reach Anthesis
• Another 1200 1300 to reach physiological
  maturity
• 900 High - 550 low
• Divide by 2 soil temp degree days