No-Till Corn Did
Well In Drought
(Continued from P«Q* A 1)
cover retained the moisture and
improved the overall crop.
Not all ground, Hess noted, is
no-tilled. Some owned ground is
a clay-loam, which has to be
plowed to guarantee consistency
in the stand and to allow the soil
to warm up.
Hess noted that when he saw
the 138-bushel per acre average,
“I was shocked,” he said. “I did
not expect that.”
Hess set his sights, he noted,
on 80 bushels per acre. Even
that looked promising at times.
But with several 100- degree
days and lack of rainfall last
summer, at times the corn
“never looked stressed real
bad,” he said.
Sometimes the corn became
“pointy,” he said. But timely
showers at two- or three-tenths
of an inch literally held drought
damage at bay.
This year, some cold, wet
ground proved difficult to no
till. Though the entire farm is
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