Farmers quit whining about high fertilizer prices when they used the “SNX30 fertilizer supplement” that makes fertilizer affordable and reduces toxicity with pre-season payback. Listen to what many agronomists, a past Board Member of the New York Farm Viability Institute (and farmer), a Georgia Corn Commission Board Member (and farmer), top NCGA corn yield winners, soil structure and nutrient manager and other farmers say about the unmatched benefits of the “SNX30 fertilizer supplement”. If you can't believe them, who can you believe? As one farmer claimed - It almost feels like cheating.
This is the thing that irritates me about corn.. I dont know why you can just replant seed from wheat out of a field you grew it in but corn you cannot. Has corn always been that way back when they began growing it and harvesting it? Why can you replant sweet corn?! Ive done that and it works! I think it works with popcorn too! So why not field corn? Have they messed with the genetics so much that you just get mutated dwarf plants if you replant it or what?
Because we’re planting hybrids. If you plant the corn you grow it will be inbred It would be like brothers and sisters only marrying. Lots of issues. By breeding out increases yield exponentially. You can get the best traits from different families of corn. That is why they were detassling some corn and leaving the other rows. The other rows were from a different family. The tassel is the male part of the plant.
It’s hybridized corn, rather than a landrace. You technically can replant hybrid field corn, but it will yield *much* better if you buy hybridized seed. The yield gain is significant relative to non-hybridized seed as well. The same is true for hybrid sweet corn and hybrid popcorn and any number of other hybrid crops that are available. There are currently no commercially-available hybrid wheat or small grain varieties, other than for rice. So for those crops there’s not as much advantage to buying from a seed company.
Farmers quit whining about high fertilizer prices when they used the “SNX30 fertilizer supplement” that makes fertilizer affordable and reduces toxicity with pre-season payback. Listen to what many agronomists, a past Board Member of the New York Farm Viability Institute (and farmer), a Georgia Corn Commission Board Member (and farmer), top NCGA corn yield winners, soil structure and nutrient manager and other farmers say about the unmatched benefits of the “SNX30 fertilizer supplement”. If you can't believe them, who can you believe? As one farmer claimed - It almost feels like cheating.
This is the thing that irritates me about corn.. I dont know why you can just replant seed from wheat out of a field you grew it in but corn you cannot. Has corn always been that way back when they began growing it and harvesting it? Why can you replant sweet corn?! Ive done that and it works! I think it works with popcorn too! So why not field corn? Have they messed with the genetics so much that you just get mutated dwarf plants if you replant it or what?
Because we’re planting hybrids. If you plant the corn you grow it will be inbred It would be like brothers and sisters only marrying. Lots of issues. By breeding out increases yield exponentially. You can get the best traits from different families of corn. That is why they were detassling some corn and leaving the other rows. The other rows were from a different family. The tassel is the male part of the plant.
GMO CRAP! Buy heirloom seeds and stop being yoked to industry
It’s hybridized corn, rather than a landrace. You technically can replant hybrid field corn, but it will yield *much* better if you buy hybridized seed. The yield gain is significant relative to non-hybridized seed as well.
The same is true for hybrid sweet corn and hybrid popcorn and any number of other hybrid crops that are available.
There are currently no commercially-available hybrid wheat or small grain varieties, other than for rice. So for those crops there’s not as much advantage to buying from a seed company.