Picking Field Corn; How many Bushels??

Trying to get ready for picking corn. Trying to see what I need for storage?  How do you figure ear corn to shelled?  From what I recall  corn weight is 56 lbs. Bushel and ear is 35 Lbs. and it takes two bushel of ear or 70 lbs. to equal one bushel shelled 56 lbs.

  So if my yield is 150 Bu. shelled.  How many bushels of eared corn will I have? 

By the way some did great just under 200 Bu.,  some only 96 Bu.  live and learn.  Next year on the steeper grades 30 " rows going to space a little farther apart, too dry to yield nice ears at 6-7 inches between plants (ears are short 3,4 & 5 inches) in places the field where it was hard to plant where plowing was rough and planter skipped some it look good nice full 8 " ears on a 90 day corn.

Thanks !!  Teddy

Algebra will tell you that you increase the bushels of shelled by 25% to get ear volume,

A bushel is a bushel and based on the weight of grain. Volume is a whole 'nuther country.

if you have a crib for ear corn you take the lenth times the width times the depth times .4 and that will give you the bushels and the same goes for shelled corn only you take the measurements times .8.

And next year is next year as last year was last year. 30" rows@6-7" spacing sounds like somethiing in the 28-29,000 plants/acre range. That may not be bad year in and year out, because some modern corn will stand high populations. Some can flex ear size, and make up for dry or wet conditions. When I first started farming in 66 we planted 23,000 and thought that racy, when I retired in 93 I was at 27-28,000 and wondered if that was enough. I have friends that plant up to 38,000! Seems a lot, but their proven yields say maybe not! 38,000X.90% germinationx.4lb ears=34,200lbs-:56=244.29bpa. Ask neighbors about their practices and use that as a guide line. If you knew the temps-rainfall-soil fertility- and all other parameters that could influence things you would still be left with guessing for the PERFECT planting rate. In the meantime sounds like you're doing OK!!!

Gerald J. wrote: And ask the seed seller, preferable the district sales manager what population the number you want to plant likes for your territory. Some like it thick, some don't.  And those that don't cut way back on production. Then there's flex ear and fixed ear corn. Fixed ear corn tips back if there's too much population or not enough nutrition (water included) aborting kernels at the tips of the ears. Some like it to show about 3/4 inch of tip back indicating the population was about optimum for the available nutrition. Gerald J.

My sweet corn tipped back this year but I've noticed around here so did the field corn. Some say it was the heat that did it. Seemed like we had plenty of moisture.