Extreme Planting

摘要

This is not a "how-to-grow-corn" article but rather a look at one fanner's experiment with out-of-the-box thinking to try to find a way to get more units of production from an acre of land. Last year, Jay Hardwick, who operates a diversified farm nearNewellton, La., decided to doublecrop 150 acres of corn with milo and follow the crop all the way through harvest to gauge the potential of this type of cropping system. He began by studying three years' worth of historical weather - particularly heat units/DD50s - for the area, and on July 29, Hardwick harvested his milo, ran the shredder behind the combine and planted corn behind the shredder.