2 year old seed corn
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Topic: 2 year old seed corn
Posted By: ctbowles58
Subject: 2 year old seed corn
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 8:21pm
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i have about 15 bags of DeKalb seed corn that's 2 years old, do you think it would still be ok to plant ? its been in the dry. ------------- 190XT 2WD45 WF D15 D14 CA BIG10 302 & 303 bailers 77G rake 80R mower 6 plows and alot more |
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 8:26pm
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I planted some I had given to me for food plots for 5 years. The 4th year, I thought my 1890's JD planter messed up and skipped a few. Last year I finished out that seed in my "new" planter, no tilling into standing beans. Only about half of it grew. I got something different this year  ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Orange Glow
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 8:32pm
| Most of it will grow, if it was stored properly. We did a test plot with some of our new brand of corn (Becks) and some of the older Mycogen that was left from a couple years before. It yielded competitively, so it really didn’t bother it much to be older. We usually buy several pounds extra of sweet corn seed and put it in the freezer for years to come. |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 8:42pm
| Plant it. |
Posted By: ctbowles58
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 9:14pm
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Orange Glow wrote:Posted By: Leesok
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 10:31pm
| Do a germ check. Get the wife's cake pan, put a inch of dirt or potting soil in it and plant 100 seeds. Keep in an area that will stay above 70* then count how many come up. Better yet plant some in her house plants, she'll keep em watered for you. |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 25 Apr 2018 at 11:56pm
| yep...what Tom and Lee says! |
Posted By: SteveMaskey(MO)
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 6:30am
| It doesn’t matter that you kept in the dry. Some times it will germ and sometimes not. I just threw away 3 bags that was that old only a few grains per sample would germ. Do as Lee says |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 6:43am
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Seed company I worked for back in the 90's would do germination tests on small grains. Lay out a couple paper towels. Place a row of seeds across center of towels, fold towels in half over seeds. Get towels wet and let sit a few days. You can open towels up to check on progress of germination. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 7:29am
I also do the paper towel test and use the wife's cookie sheet. She used to scream more when I used dirt.  ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 8:40am
| Only way to know is to do the germination test. 15 bags....so we're talking a "farming operation" not just food plots or whatever. You could up the rate some if the germ test shows lower germination. |
Posted By: john(MI)
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 9:07am
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From what I've heard on the price of seed now, by the seed not pound anymore, I would definitely test it and/or plant it. ------------- D14, D17, 5020, 612H, CASE 446 |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 10:52am
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Most of you would be shocked at the TRUE age of the seed you plant! ALL COMPANIES do germ tests, submit the results to the various states,,,,,,,,,, and that resulting date becomes the date on the end of the bag. But heck,,,,,,,, if it germs out at 96-7%,, what does it matter? Less than 90% usually become salvage corn and is burnt in power plants,,,,,,,,,,, or roasted, and the coating burnt off to feed to hogs. (This depends on the seed coat of course!) Of course placing seed in a "salvage" class is resisted a lot! Soybeans are a different breed of pups because they don't retain the germination factor like corn! ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: Dipstick In
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 10:57am
And yes, John,,,,,,,,, corn seed has been sold by the 80,000 kernel unit for several years now,,,,,,,,,,,, not by the pound weight. If you check your bags,,,,, I'd bet it describes the unit as 80,ooo seeds, with a bag weight of ####.# pounds.(I've seen this vary between 37 and 48 pounds a lot......................... ------------- You don't really have to be smart if you know who is! |
Posted By: Wayne180d
Date Posted: 26 Apr 2018 at 9:38pm
| I farmed two very pieces of land and always used some old seed to fill out the planter instead of buying another bag. Could never tell the difference always yielded good |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2018 at 2:15am
| mix it in with your new seed, it'll cross pollinate with the other plants. I've put last of a bag seed in with new seed before, never hurt my yield any! |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2018 at 6:48am
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OK... corn seed has been sold by the 80,000 kernel unit WHO counts them when they buy them !! ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Orange Glow
Date Posted: 27 Apr 2018 at 7:09am
| There was a couple people who actually did count a bag of corn! According to our seed person, it took them all night, and it was right about 80,000. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 9:17am
Been sold that way for decades I'd say.
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Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 30 Apr 2018 at 9:20am
How old? The year prior.....? Me too. 2 years? How old was it to begin with (as dipstick points out)? Point is, a germination test is super easy to do, extremely inexpensive in the scheme of growing corn, and the only way you will really know. A screw up in poor germination could easily cost $1000's on the scale this guy is asking about.
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