This is what happens when there is no soil seed contact. What a waste of seed . The soil was too wet when we planted this field. The closing wheels on the planter didn’t do their job, that with aid of too much cold rain right after planting. I’ve never seen anything like this before on any of our planted fields. At $300 per bag of seed, and with markets going down the toilet, this is no joke.
Tag: corn
Uneven corn field
This is what happens when you try to plant into an unfit seed bed.
If you dig in the soil to find the seed that didn’t grow, you find a wet, mushy seed that is rotting below the surface. The seed-soil contact was too poor for the strong little seed to grow. This is quite common in our area. There will be a lot of spotty fields this year.