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Celebrating Corn

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Dayphoto

Our corn has grown amazingly well this year.

On June 30^th it was Linki size

Linki-is-Corn-High

then on the 4^th of July it was Bladen size,

Corn-is-Blade-High

and today it is showing signs of tasseling out.

Tasseling out is one of the most critical stages of corns’ development. What a farmer is aiming for is a large kernel number per ear on each stalk of corn. In other words a full ear of kernels! Most corn ears have about 12 to 16 rows of kernels, but if the conditions are just right you can sometimes have rows of upwards to 20! Now that is cool and helps with the tonnage at harvest.

Sea-of-Corn

I won’t go into tasseling and silking and pollination at this time. But suffice it to say, the corn is definitely ‘knee high by the 4^th of July’!

14 thoughts on “Celebrating Corn”

Faith on July 8, 2009 at 8:57 pm said:

Now, that wasn’t corny at all. 🙂

I love those open skies and fields!

~Faith

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Leenie on July 8, 2009 at 9:24 pm said:

Best wishes for a lot of corn. Shucks!

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Lacy on July 8, 2009 at 9:45 pm said:

The tractor pull looks like it might have been fun. Growing up my dad would always do the truck pulls, it is probably similar? Love the pictures of the kids in the corn. So cute!

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Russ on July 8, 2009 at 10:47 pm said:

That’s some great looking corn. Back here it has been a tough season so far for corn, although you might plant sooner that here in northern New York. It has been wet, wet, wet and you know what that combined with little sun and hot weather does for corn. I’ve seen seasons like this before and in the end the crop recovers and is a little tonnage by harvest time. The only reason I pay attention is my brother in law is a dairy farmer up along the St. Lawrence river near Watertown. Really enjoy the photos.

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Lucy on July 8, 2009 at 11:28 pm said:

So pretty!

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Michele on July 9, 2009 at 2:53 am said:

This sounds like rocket science. Do you grow sweet corn or feed corn?

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Pam on July 9, 2009 at 2:47 pm said:

Now I am always going to be counting rows. I want 20 rows… how cool is that. Target had corn 10 for a dollar last week and it was pretty good corn (o:

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Linda on July 9, 2009 at 3:25 pm said:

NICE!! The corn up here took a beating with frost this spring and is way behind.

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hi-d on July 9, 2009 at 3:48 pm said:

Love the pics of the kids in the corn! Knee high by the 4th of July! I was trying to remember the saying when I started reading your post! I knew there was some little saying that could help you determine how good your corn is doing!! Looks wonderful! Is that eating corn or feeding livestock corn?
I remember being sat on the front porch with my brothers to shuck bags and bags of corn!! Good times!

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Jody Blue on July 9, 2009 at 9:24 pm said:

up here the ol’timers would say if the corn is “knee high by the 4th of July” the crop was right on track.

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thecrazysheeplady on July 9, 2009 at 9:51 pm said:

Too cute!!! Corn here is big early this year. Gotta love all the rain…if you aren’t trying to put up hay ;-).

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Far Side of Fifty on July 10, 2009 at 8:39 pm said:

Wonderful photos! Loved the kids in the corn.. great shots! 🙂

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T on July 12, 2009 at 12:11 am said:

I just keep learning more from you. I will always be counting the rows of corn now!

Love the pictures of the kids in the corn:)

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Mountain Woman on July 13, 2009 at 1:29 pm said:

Wow, it’s incredible!

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