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Macon Rounds
Orange Level Joined: 18 Feb 2010 Location: Pittsburgh Pa Points: 2136 |
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Posted: 14 Apr 2024 at 11:42am |
Ready for planting.
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Macon Rounds
Orange Level Joined: 18 Feb 2010 Location: Pittsburgh Pa Points: 2136 |
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We ended up with 4 each 5 gal buckets.
2 yellow and 2 red. The corn has been drying on the cob since last October. Any idea how many acreas a 5 gal bucket will plant ? I'll get the 5 gal weight later today. |
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VaAllis1990
Bronze Level Joined: 26 Jan 2022 Location: Champlain Va Points: 23 |
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I’d take a guess to say a 5 gallon bucket would plant 2 acres or so. Depends on seed size and population you want to plant, but that would be a fair guess
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Lars(wi)
Orange Level Access Joined: 14 Sep 2009 Location: Permian Basin Points: 7155 |
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I didn’t think anybody did that anymore.
Grandpa said years and years ago, many farmers did that during the Great Depression. |
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I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science.
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Macon Rounds
Orange Level Joined: 18 Feb 2010 Location: Pittsburgh Pa Points: 2136 |
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This verity of corn is a mix of several heirloom seeds that have been handed down and planted in this area for decades and possibly a century.....
Last year we plowed and planted..... This year we are using a neighbors no-till planter... We will be planting over two types of ground. Tilled ground that was heavily populated with turnips last fall. And Sod ground that was burned down and planted in tillage radishes.... Both will need weed control.... Hopefully I can do a better job cultivating this year but currently looking for a suitable 3 point sprayer. Edited by Macon Rounds - 15 Apr 2024 at 7:09am |
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Ray54
Orange Level Access Joined: 22 Nov 2009 Location: Paso Robles, Ca Points: 4498 |
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As a farming practice saving seed was just how it was done until hybrid corn was invented. Just to show how backwards I have been, until my seed cleaning guy retired 2 years ago most all my barley and oats seed has been home raised. I would buy 1000 or 2000 pounds of certified seed, and then save all that part of the crop for seed. Being somewhat more careful to clean, combine and truck bins to not have other seed in them. Repeated until it seemed prudent to get some new certified seed. Way cheaper to grow and clean your own, in many cases. Tied many "new" wonder varieties of barley over the years. Many did real good one year and a complete bust the next. Or the grain brokers local would come up with new trait to charge dockage on. One of the best of those was the kernel was to thin. Bushel weight had always been the standard that quality was measured from in the feed barley market, locally. It was exhalant in the bushel weight measure, so the new standard was how thick the seed was. THICKS OF THE TRADE of being a grain broker. My world has changed and as far as I know very little Land Grant University seed development work going on out here. So any new variety is on patent, so seed saving is going away FAST. But I am ready to hang the farming up and just run a few cows. I sure don't recommend it, but I had pallet of barley seed cleaned in 2011, that got lost in the warehouse. Planted it in 2022, was more dust than seed because of weevil damage. Dispite drought conditions a lot more of it grew than I could of hoped for. Was going to cut for hay, but because of drought just turned the cows on it. So anyway I don't think seed saving in the 1930's was driven by the Depression. Many corn farmers had not seen the benefits of high yielding hybrid corn yet. Thanks Macon for sharing a bit of your live. And keeping some old traditions alive, along with old time proven varieties of corn.
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