There are a couple of poor corn germination posts in the top forums.
Maybe its nothing terrible, but as long as we have monsatan mucking about with a major food crop that is wind pollinated I at least would like to hear back from other growers.
With luck its just a poor year--even if my scepticism makes me say I doubt that Monsanto can avoid putting its own bossom in the wringer.
My F1 corn (two varieties) are doing okay, but SLOW! This year is a cold, wet, late growing season in most of the corn belt. The last two years have been unusually hard winters and cool wet growing seasons for us!
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Posts: 239 | Location: Northern Illinois west of Chicago on top of a windy hill! | Registered: July 09, 2008
The only corn that I'd say is "normal" around here is some very pampered, hard core gardeners.
Even I have no corn this year -- garden in general is a tremendous disappoint (basically I'm just making plans to kick ass and take names next year). Not just the weather in my case, but the weather was enough to prevent any recovery.
I'd say half the silage corn fields are just knee high now, that's bad for July 25th. They should've been waist high by July 1st. The other half of the fields are just waist high.
My tomatoes plants are all still self-supporting, none have grown enough to need staking.
25 out of 30 days in June had measurable preciptation. Only 90º day was in early May or late April. Today's the warmest day we've had in July, and my house inside is 72º with the A/C turned off.
Crops and gardens here desperately need a good two weeks with no rain and 90º+ temps to put the plants into overdrive.
We had a pretty cool spring and early summer, but the normal 100 degree days arrived in July and since then my corn has taken off and is doing as well as it normally does. Wish I could say the same for my tomatoes.
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Posts: 383 | Location: The high Utah desert. Zone 4/5 | Registered: November 01, 2003
My poor corn got whipped by so many storms that it really had no chance. What did survive was quite tasty but this was just about the entire harvest from four, 15' rows!
That's how I voted though the ears are nowhere near full. But, since I planted a little late and in succession, the plants in the various patches look right on track to produce as expected.
wayne
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