Feed / seed corn?

  • whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    March 6, 2011 at 1:15 pm #204465

    Can “feed corn” be planted as seed corn?? (Much cheaper… Will it grow right??)

    ???

    qdm4life
    Albertville, MN
    Posts: 956
    March 6, 2011 at 2:37 pm #101713

    It will grow but nothing. Will be right abouit it!!!! Contact your local NWTF chapter and become a member for 30 and for the next however many years you can buy round up ready seed corn for 10$ a bag from their ” conservation reserve seed bank, its 1 year old corn donated by the corn seed companies and if I, correct tbhat will do over 2 acres!!

    bob_bergeson
    cannon falls
    Posts: 2798
    March 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm #101715

    Quote:

    It will grow but nothing. Will be right abouit it!!!! Contact your local NWTF chapter and become a member for 30 and for the next however many years you can buy round up ready seed corn for 10$ a bag from their ” conservation reserve seed bank, its 1 year old corn donated by the corn seed companies and if I, correct tbhat will do over 2 acres!!

    X2

    DONOTDELETE
    Posts: 780
    March 7, 2011 at 1:12 am #101739

    That is some great info and another great reason to join a quality group.

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    March 7, 2011 at 1:13 am #101740

    Bob and Ben are some great sources for food plot information. Nice work guys !

    bradg
    Posts: 507
    March 7, 2011 at 2:36 am #101747

    x2 on all of the above. It would be a waste of time. The main reason for this is that feed corn, although clean, is not handled anything like the way that seed corn is handled. The biggest difference is that the feed corn is dried with a lot of heat and seed corn is not. Heat kills the germ plain and simple. The other concern would be that even if it is for a plot it could technically be illegal to do this especially if the “feed corn” had any GMO corn in it. Its all about the owner of the germplasm and the traits getting their “royalty” off it.

    Awesome info about sources to get a good bargain on plot corn. A bag of corn seed has 80,000 kernals and in my plots I plant it at about 26,000 per acre max depending on the soil type where I am at. This gives me 3 acres per bag, so even if a guy has to pay normal retail price for a bag of RR corn, it’s not really expensive per acre.

    Just my .02 Good luck

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    March 7, 2011 at 2:50 am #101749

    More great info Thanks Brad

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    March 7, 2011 at 3:31 pm #101771

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    x2 on all of the above. It would be a waste of time. The main reason for this is that feed corn, although clean, is not handled anything like the way that seed corn is handled. The biggest difference is that the feed corn is dried with a lot of heat and seed corn is not. Heat kills the germ plain and simple. The other concern would be that even if it is for a plot it could technically be illegal to do this especially if the “feed corn” had any GMO corn in it. Its all about the owner of the germplasm and the traits getting their “royalty” off it.

    That’s what I was looking for – thanks for the evidence to back that up.

    I normally get RR corn from the local coop, works great. The feed corn question just popped in my head – thanks for the answers….

    Thanks again!

    prieser
    Byron, MN
    Posts: 2274
    March 7, 2011 at 8:17 pm #101818

    Quote:

    I usually get RR corn from the local coop, works great. The feed corn question just popped in my head – thanks for the answers….

    Thanks again!

    These guys are just like you and me and most are full of useful information if you ask. The Co-ops and the elevators in most small towns have turned into wildlife suppliers quite a bit in the last decade or so.

    Cool question, I never knew the answer to that

    bradg
    Posts: 507
    March 8, 2011 at 12:24 am #101843

    Quote:

    I normally get RR corn from the local coop, works great. The feed corn question just popped in my head – thanks for the answers….

    Thanks again!

    Glad to help, generally I take a lot more away from the site than I give back, but Seed Corn is one thing I know a fair bit about

    zachary fries
    Central Nebraska
    Posts: 1435
    March 8, 2011 at 2:18 pm #101895

    Also the fruit size variation that you would get from a strait run of field corn would really screw you up, especially if you are planting with a plated planter

    whittsend
    Posts: 2389
    March 9, 2011 at 11:20 pm #102068

    Quote:

    It will grow but nothing. Will be right abouit it!!!! Contact your local NWTF chapter and become a member for 30 and for the next however many years you can buy round up ready seed corn for 10$ a bag from their ” conservation reserve seed bank, its 1 year old corn donated by the corn seed companies and if I, correct tbhat will do over 2 acres!!

    I’m in the process of checking into this (emails sent to NWTF reps)

    — Anyone in the Eau Claire area try this? Who did you contact/get the seeds from?

    Thanks for any info!

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