Too Much Volunteer Corn

Too Much Volunteer Corn CROPS Miscellaneous This was not an uncommon sight in my part of Illinois late last fall – an ocean of volunteer corn coming up after the extra-early harvest of the fall crop You might think this particular farmer did a bad job of harvesting but it’s not unusual for a combine to lose 2 to 3 bushels of corn per acre Since there are about 72 000 kernels of corn in a bushel you could have a volunteer corn plant population of 150 000 to 200 000 plants C F Marley Nokomis Ill

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