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Have you ever heard the saying that you can hear corn growing at night? Actually, what you hear is probably rustling of leaves caused by any hint of a breeze. It grows so fast, though, that it seems like you should be able to hear it. The first three pictures below are my daughter and granddaughter. I believe the pictures are from May 25, June 1, and June 6. It is Silver Queen sweet corn. That patch is gone now, and the next patch of sweet corn is about like the second picture.
The picture with the old, fat, gray-bearded guy is an old field corn variety called Trucker’s Favorite. As beautiful as it is, if it quit raining now, or my well runs dry, it won’t make any corn. During the tasseling, silking, and pollination stage of growth, corn needs the equivalent of 2-3 inches of rain per week for optimum production. This is a small patch, about 1/4 acre, so hopefully it will get some showers and I can supplement the rain with well water.
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07-07-2020, 12:54 PM
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Here in NM we got the Schwebach Family.
These folks are corny!
Over the years they have matched up their sweet corn with their ground.
And it shows, their corn is really good!
Schwebach Farm
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I LOVE the pictures!
You can eat corn?! Arkansas corn processing plant:
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Up her in the PNW we say "knee high by the 4th of July" You guys are much warmer. Nice looking corn there. Sure is fun to grow.
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07-07-2020, 01:24 PM
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We can grow it ok but the deer beat us to it and I don’t grow enough to be able to share it, so we gave up on the corn.
Yours is looking real nice!
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07-07-2020, 01:28 PM
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I can't grow corn so I am relegated to just read about it.
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I've walked corn field's farm roads at night in the summer. You really can hear the corn grow on some nights. If you know what to listen for you can also catch and eliminate a couple of raccoons helping themselves too!
In the 1950's and 60's, grandpa's farm had a standing bounty: 5 cents on rats and 50 cents on raccoons! My uncles and my older brother cashed in enough that by my turn there just weren't many left to shoot! (but today, raccoons seem to be a national/international plague!)
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Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Hold on!
Are you saying that corn doesn't come from cans...?!
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I had always heard you can hear corn grow. So, I was out in Nebraska
one time, on a very hot day. I stopped the car, rolled down the windows,
turned the car off, and just listened. There was no wind. I swear I could
hear what must have been the corn growing. Snap, crackle, & pop.
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Snap, crackle, & pop.
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That is as good of description as any!
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Some parts of the country a fellow could walk for days getting from one side of a field to the other!
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Only believers really hear the corn.
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There were no meteor showers or anything were there?
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My tech school was Chanute AFB in Rantoul, Illinois. I got there in August and my barracks was the last one in a row next to a perimeter fence and a bazillion acres of corn. The sweat bees, horse flies, mosquitoes and giant mayflies were in full kamikaze mode.
If the children of the corn sent you out there you'd never find your way out.
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in the larger corn fields around here, they measure yield by bushels per acre and the smaller fields it's still gallons per acre. Lee
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Originally Posted by redlevel
Have you ever heard the saying that you can hear corn growing at night? Actually, what you hear is probably rustling of leaves caused by any hint of a breeze. It grows so fast, though, that it seems like you should be able to hear it. The first three pictures below are my daughter and granddaughter. I believe the pictures are from May 25, June 1, and June 6. It is Silver Queen sweet corn. That patch is gone now, and the next patch of sweet corn is about like the second picture.
The picture with the old, fat, gray-bearded guy is an old field corn variety called Trucker’s Favorite. As beautiful as it is, if it quit raining now, or my well runs dry, it won’t make any corn. During the tasseling, silking, and pollination stage of growth, corn needs the equivalent of 2-3 inches of rain per week for optimum production. This is a small patch, about 1/4 acre, so hopefully it will get some showers and I can supplement the rain with well water.
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I have planted both Silver Queen and Trucker's Favorite corn, in years gone by. I have seen photos this year's crop of Silver Queen already, some cousins are already putting it up.
Have a blessed day,
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I've walked corn field's farm roads at night in the summer. You really can hear the corn grow on some nights.
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I guess you just gotta be all ears.
I'll be here all week, folks!
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it's still gallons per acre. Lee
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I see what you did there. ;-))
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in the larger corn fields around here, they measure yield by bushels per acre and the smaller fields it's still gallons per acre. Lee
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I'm told by reliable sources about 2 gal./bushel of 90%. I've
never personally verified this of course.
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Some parts of the country a fellow could walk for days getting from one side of a field to the other!
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I was in Texas one time and an old rancher told me his ranch was
so big that he would get in his car and start driving, and it would
take him all day to get across the ranch. I told him I had a car
like that one time too.
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The picture with the old, fat, gray-bearded guy is an old field corn variety called Trucker’s Favorite.
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Truckers Favorite is hard to beat. Do you ever plant any Hickory King? Larry
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The way E85 came about.
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