This is a field of Croplan Genetics 9009 RH grown by Johnny Bruce Ferguson. It was harvested on September 29th.
Comments: JB thinks this is as good as any variety on the market. He is not happy with some of the other varieities he has tried.
9009 does not dent like most corn to visually tell you when to cut it. The kernel begins to get hard before it dents.
9009 has a good sized ear but smaller than average cob giving you more shell corn.
His plant population was around 35K at harvest. He may cut back to around 32K next year but has a clean field and the corn looks healthy and like it did well especially in this area where he received good rainfall. Bottoms in this same field were even too wet.
This is 20" rows.
Estimated corn bushels using (ear length x ear diameter x plants per acre)/90 was 193 bushels per acre.
Estimated corn bushels using average weight of 11 randomly selected ears was 284 bushels. The reason this is so different from estimation based on other method is likely due to percent moisture.
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