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Re: How long can growing corn go without rain?
[Re: truedouble]
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08/10/12 08:23 PM
08/10/12 08:23 PM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,103 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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Sylacauga, AL
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Finally made it to the farm to check my corn, and I actually made a little. It had about 2" of rain over the first 80 days, and has rained 6" the last 3 weeks. Too late to make a decent crop, but its probably made 20 bushels/acre or so. The stalks are about 4' tall, but most of them made a small ear or 2. Maybe I have enough to manage a dove shoot.
The chufas are stunted, but will still make if it keeps raining.
Amazing what a little rain will do. In 3 weeks the place has gone from a desert to a rain forest.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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