Corn emergence

[Jim Meade / Iowa City]

Between Iowa City and Minneapolis, it seems like a lot of the corn is starting to emerge, but it's still pretty small.  I wonder how this will affect maturity and harvest?

There was a lot of ponding around the border.  Heavy rains.  We need sunshine. 

[idalivered]

north iowa and south minn. don't really seem that far from "normal" to me. the weather from here on will be a bigger determining factor. Last year we froze everything above ground in a large part of iowa( i think it was mother's day weekend) and still recovered very nicely.

[Nebrfarmr]

Uneven emergence due to cold, wet weather here.  Not too bad, but it will take off from the top yield.

[Pupdaddy]

I drove about 50 miles back and forth along I-80 here in north west central Ohio...saw quite a bit of corn that had emerged well...between all the ponds in the fields...

[SWMICH]

My clay loam spots don't look good.  I will have 10 foot of a decent 5" tall stand and then 5 foot of no emergence.  I dug up the seeds and they were  mushy with about an inch of stem.  The field got hit with a heavy hard rain 3 weeks ago right after I planted.  Now it has a layer of crust.  We're supposed to get some rain over the next 3 - 4 days, but I think the non emerged seeds won't make it.  A lot of corn was planted under wet conditions in SW Mich. including mine.  The stand in my sandy loam soils look good.

[Nebrfarmr]

Update:  I just got done sidedressing my corn, and while it looks good from the road, once you get into the field, it isn't as even as it first looked.  Looking down a row, you will see long stretches of nice, even corn, with spots of 1, 2, or 3 plants either missing or quite stunted in a row.  This ranges from where you can't hardly tell it from the tractor seat, to maybe a total of 10 to 15% of the plants missing or stunted in the worst areas.  I have rolling ground, so I have all kinds of differences in soil types, moisture levels, residue, etc.  I think the worst places are where the residue was the thickest, or where the snow was the deepest, which caused a 'cool' spot in the field.  Yield losses won't be that much, but I feel confident that I won't be setting any records for my place.

The alternative would have been to wait until the ground was warmer, and with all the rains we had, would have been close to a 3 week wait, until late May, so I think I made the right choice.  I just hope with the warmer weather, it will even out some.

[Blacksandfarmer]

SWMICH I know the feeling. My corn is on sandy or silty loam ground and doing well but my soybeans are struggling on clay ground. I replanted some beans the other day and my planter struggled to penetrate the concrete like clay.