{"id":660,"date":"2020-03-06T10:46:01","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/?p=660"},"modified":"2020-03-06T10:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:46:02","slug":"corn-planting-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/2020\/03\/corn-planting-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Corn Planting Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I drove south this morning I had a miniature panic attack.\u00a0 I looked to the southeast and saw a bright light in the sky.\u00a0 It looked like a burning ball of gases.\u00a0 Yes it has been that long since we&#8217;ve seen the sun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know that corn planting is on everyone&#8217;s mind.  Everyone knows that we need to get seed in the ground early to maximize yields.  however we don&#8217;t need to go too soon and cause more problems than we already have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are definitely way behind, but we still have time to get fields ready in time to plant and expect 250 bushel corn.  I would say that mid April is about the cut off for us in this part of the state.  As we move past tax day we begin to lose yield potential.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the experts we start off losing 3\/4 bushels per acre per day after the optimum planting dates.  As we move further into May we could be losing up to 2.5 bushels per day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With corn prices the way that we are we need to maximize yields while keeping inputs low.  Being able to plant in the proper window is one thing that doesn&#8217;t cost but can return dollars at the end of the season.  <a href=\"https:\/\/grains.caes.uga.edu\/content\/dam\/caes-subsite\/grains\/docs\/corn\/2020-Corn-Production-Guide.pdf\">Read more here<\/a> beginning on page 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I drove south this morning I had a miniature panic attack.\u00a0 I looked to the southeast and saw a bright light in the sky.\u00a0 It looked like a burning ball of gases.\u00a0 Yes it has been that long since we have seen the sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/threerivers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}