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We're out here today doing stand counts on some more skimpy corn. We got three ropes that are 13 nine feet,
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which will tell us our population per acre. Each person's getting a population count, and then we will add those up, divide that by three.
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We do this in multiple spots of the field to two. Make sure we got the right counts. What'd you get, Gina? 33. 33. 46. 26. 25.
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25. So we'll add those three together and we'll have a stand count for this spot. What we figured out, number one is all our skimpy corn is
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where our lowest CECs are. So in our deep sand spots like we're standing in now, lower the CEC,
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the less population we got some places we got decent population, but the growth stage is gonna be somewhere between V one to a spike.
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So that's gonna hurt you too. But one thing I noticed here, and I hope you can see it on camera,
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and I kind of drew it out here. You know, we try to do this twin row and there's a skimpy row here and a good row here.
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The difference is everywhere you see the skimpy row, there's what I call water pockets.
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So there's places in here, even though we're on a flat bed, that that seed trench was a little bit lower closing wheel,
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done something a little bit different or the bed height was different. When the planter come through, those are your weak spots.
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So if you look down the twin row, everywhere you see a dark spot in the dirt is where the corn set in water.
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Maybe an hour longer, maybe two hours longer. We say we get higher yields outta twin row. This right here will equal the same
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as a single row, this bed. Then you walk over here, this bed done perfect. This will be 10 bushels better than single row in the delta
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because the bed was flatter and the corn planter planted more even. So there's 10 bushel difference in this and this just
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because of the water pockets in the one row that I'm not sure what to do about thought for the day. Alright, so.