Combines Off topic corn population question

[sawdust]

I plant seed from several different companies and they all have 80,000 seeds per bag.

 

[T__langan]

Yep, I second that. Everything I've ever seen has been 80,000 per bag no matter what size seed.

 

[D_Mayes]

Everything I have seen has 80,000.I would probably wait and see when it just starts to spike out of the ground then go back and plant the skips.To be sure you almost have to start digging every row as you know some rows run out before others.

 

[thud]

Yep all seed corn is sold in 80k units. With that number you should be able to guess the approximate area where you ran out. Then just pick a planter pass and start poking around in the row. Try one row and if you find seed.. jump over the appropriate number of rows ( 6 for a six row,,, 8 for 8 row planter etc) and poke around some more. You should be able to narrow it down to a single pass of the planter withing 5-10 minutes or so...... speaking from experience :-}

 

[kw]

Not all are in 80000, as some when the rounds get too large will go to 60000. Usually they will label these large rounds though.

 

[Silver_Shoes]

Hey, thanks all. I figured I have a 7.7 acre gap, in a 20 acre patch. It was a 16 row, so I think I will just try to notch it out of the patch and replant it. Bad thing is 13 rows were empty so I will have 3 that are super thick. I feel like such an idiot, so frustrated.

 

[R_O_M]

Over here in Oz some of us get attacks of "Row worm". Row worms are notorious for taking out the same single row for pass after pass of the seeder. In bad cases they even take out entire seeder widths, sometimes for just one pass down the field and other times for a number of successive passes. Crop emergence usually leaves the proud owner quite embarrassed. Cheers!

 

[T__langan]

What happened that your monitor didn't warn youIJ I'm curious to know so maybe we can prevent the same thing from happening sometime.... I've ran low on seed while planting beans - the only thing is that the populations are high enough that a few kept dropping through, just enough to keep the monitor from warning me. Had some thin spots before it finally went off! Those pesky row worms are worldwide apparently...

 

[Silver_Shoes]

T, I just got the problem fixed today. You know the little magnetic pickup for speed. Well it went bad and I never even noticed it wasnt giving me a speed reading. Well that screws up the rest of the system. None of the seed sensors were working. I had noticed that the speed was very eratic and then it went to 0, but I didnt really pay attention to it. I was used to the beep beep when it quite planting. It never beeped or anything. Its a 3600 kinze II monitor.