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Article: Growing corn for feed.
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 1997
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As we were trying to plant our corn last May and June, we had massive amounts of rain from several storms. The plantings were late, on land that was worked too early, resulting in a poor stand on some of our land. (We were fortunate enough to have had a fair amount of our corn planted and growing before the rains came and overall we had a good crop in spite of a cool summer.)
Anyway, on the headlands (see note 1) of one of the wettest fields nearest the barns, the corn was only 2-4 feet tall in early August. I knew it would never mature before frost. Since it had not rained much in summer and the pastures were doing the usual late summer browning, I decided to ...