Picking Field Corn; How many Bushels??
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Topic: Picking Field Corn; How many Bushels??
Posted By: Teddy (punchie)
Subject: Picking Field Corn; How many Bushels??
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 5:49am
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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 ------------- Ac D-19, a Number of WD's, One WD45, Two 444 balers, Ac plows and etc. |
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Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 6:50am
| 150 bushels of shelled corn is 150 bushels of ear corn. 150 x 56 = 8400 pounds of shelled corn. 150 x 70 = 10,500 pounds of ear corn. You are talking volume vs weight. |
Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 6:56am
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Algebra will tell you that you increase the bushels of shelled by 25% to get ear volume,
ear 70 lbs / bushel
1 bushel = ---------------- = 1.25 ratio
shelled 56 lbs / bushel ------------- Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance. Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise. |
Posted By: Teddy (punchie)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 7:30am
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All of yield estimates I have found are for shelled corn. Okay still not sure , a bushel area is 1.24 cu ft , at a two (eared) to One shelled it should be Two to One ???? 150 bushel of shelled should it not be 300 bu. In volume in eared corn thus 70 ( two bushel) equals one shelled 56 lbs. of corn and 14 lbs.in cob after it is dryer. Weight would be higher do to the high percent of moister. So I'm not after weight for storage. ------------- Ac D-19, a Number of WD's, One WD45, Two 444 balers, Ac plows and etc. |
Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 7:55am
| A bushel is a bushel and based on the weight of grain. Volume is a whole 'nuther country. |
Posted By: Gary (sw Wis.)
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 8:09am
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One square foot is .4 of a bushel of ear corn. Or if you prefer 1 bushel of ear corn takes 2.5 Square feet of stoarge. ------------- 190XT - D17 - D14 - WD45 w/loader - WD - (2)B110 - 616H - 610 - B-208 - WD with 190 Mounted Corn Picker - All Crop 60 |
Posted By: Larry B
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 8:19am
| 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. |
Posted By: Dans 7080
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 8:19am
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The easy to figure ear corn to shelled corn is to multiply by .8. If you have 150 bushel of ear corn you would have 120 bushel of shelled corn. (150X.8=120) If your going shelled to ear simply divide by .8. |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 9:25am
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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!!! ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 10:20am
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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. |
Posted By: wkpoor
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 10:54am
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. |
Gerald J. wrote:Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 07 Sep 2011 at 11:44am
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This was a perfect year for corn growing. It gave you about everything and every condition for what could go wrong in one season. Way to much dry to germinate, then way to wet to grow combined with the cold which caused slow growth, yellowed weak plants which couldn't use the fertilizer, then hot conditions at tasseling and polination, coupled with either too much dry and or wet conditions! Man, if you're getting 96 to 200 bpa you may not be doing bad. And I usually used sweet corn which I planted in the end rows as a gauge for yield guesses. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. I still pray for those who may not have a crop this year as know you guys do too! May God bless them! ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |