how are your yields for those in here who still use then or can compare them to the neighbors?what plant populations do you use?i've been thinking about going back to 36" rows to be able to open up my fields and maybe interseed between the rows .
II plant 36" rows, about 25,000 per acre, and fertilize to what the soil test says I need and I can hit 150 bu. no problem. Some neighbors on 30" rows are getting 175, which for our ground is about as good as it gets . . . . I picked a few acres of corn planted in 30" rows at 30,000 with a 1-row picker a few years ago for a neighbor, yield more corn, but the ears in lower population wider row corn were larger and had more eye appeal (important for selling bagged corn and pickup loads). I could convert the planter easily enough to 30" rows, but I'd have to find a super nice NI 325 to replace my super-nice NI 324, hard to do in this area. Also, I'd have to get a different combine if I started shelling corn again, since my K2 Gleaner wouldn't be able to handle a 4-row narrow head and good 3 row narrow heads are rare as hen's teeth.
