Combines Growing corn in central SaskIJIJ

I don't know about the days to maturity for the corn crop, However, I live in south western ontario and I know that they have been experimenting with growing corn in New liskard ON. and they only have about 2000 heat units on a good year with so so results. I would imagine with your location corn would cost plenty by the time trucking costs were added. As far as using a straight head to combine corn it will work just fine. A friend was running a combine ( CIH 1688 8 row head ) for a custom operator. They had about 600 acres of really down corn to combine for Can. Ag. On the last day he got into the worst field yet and the corn was only running 42 bushels with cobs all over the ground. So just for the he** of it he told one of the guys to bring him the 25' flex head. With the flex head the corn ran 85 bushels. He said he wondered how much corn they really could have saved over the 600 acres if they used the flex head for it all. 40 bus_acre x 600 acres =24000 bus x $3.50 Can = $84,000. oops !!!! He said after that experience he would never buy a corn head for his own farm use.

Shadow, Do some checking around and find the shortest growing season corn possible, like 100 days or even less if you can. Plant it as soon has the soil temp. gets close to 50. That's my .02 worth. Good luck! K.A.

I have seen some corn that runs 85 days till harvest.

I remember reading an article in succesful farming a year or so ago about growing corn that far north. If I remember correctly, they anticipated about a 50bu yeild and was to be cut by conventional combine. Variety was an open pollinatedIJ type. Don't know much about raising corn, just something I remember reading.

Don't forget, there might be cooler temps in Sask. but the days are longer and gernerally there is more sunshine than in the traditional growing areas. If you want to try it, then just do it. Don't let anyone else tell you it can't ( or shouldn't ) be done. Decide that for yourself. Just don't risk the ranch on the project. Bonne Chance!!