I appreciate your corn trial. What you have noticed is easily explained now that we have learned more about NutriCrave corn. Nutricrave puts on most of its nutrient content very late in the growing season as it is drying down. In northern regions where the maturity is too long for the region, the Nutricrave can be killed by frost before the plant is totally done drying down and this makes a huge difference in the nutrient content. Honestly, we did not know this until this past fall as we were testing samples from various regions of the country. The samples from northern states were not as good as the central Midwest due to the plants not being totally done drying down before a frost. In your video you state that the ag corn was 100-day vs the 108-day Nutricrave. This doesnt sound like much but I bet you dont have many farmers in your region planting 108-day corn. We have worked with our corn breeder to develop a 100-day maturity Nutricrave which is now available for northern regions. If you are willing to give it another shot in a fair trial and video the results, I will get you a bag of the 100-day nutricrave. I am confident that you will see a huge difference. The one thing that I would ask in order to have a fair trial, is that if you have a 4-row planter, you put Nutricrave in 2 boxes and your other 100-day corn in the other two boxes. As you go back and forth in the field you will have 4 rows of each next to each other across the entire field. This eliminates a lot of variables. Also, when you do the test, we would like for you to also do a nutrient analysis from both varieties and report the results. Just contact me privately if you are interested. Thanks again for reporting your observations. The only way for us to get better is to know about problems but I think we have this one addressed with the new 100-day Nutricrave corn. thank you
All my NutriCrave in this video was planted May 20 & 21. We didn’t get any frost until Late October. The Corn seemed to have dried down like normal. Some of my no-till into rye 100 day corn that didn’t get planted until June 7 is getting ate up. That no till corn definitely didn’t get a chance to dry down properly. I did have a small section of NutriCrave 1/4 acre on a different property that every kernel was consumed by the end of January. So when it was the only thing available it got pounded. I’d definitely like to try the 100 day NutriCrave next year. I’ll reach out on Facebook. Would the corn cross pollinate being so close in maturity and being right next to eachother? I could plant it in blocks of 4-8 rows and have brassica lanes separating the corn 5-10 yards.
@@wisconsinwhitetail9744 Nutricrave corn dries down much slower than other corn due to much higher fat levels. There is a reason you planted 100-day ag corn; that is what the farmers are planting in your area. They dont plant 108-day corn for a reason. To the average food plotter it doesnt sound like a big deal but the farmers know what they are doing. We have seen the same thing with soybeans that are a longer maturity than what should be planted in a particular region. The plant needs to totally complete its life cycle (including dry down) to reach maximum palatability and nutrient content. Just sharing information from numerous cases across different regions, not just one situation. Again, thank you for taking the time to do your comparison and I look forward to getting you a bag of 100-day Nutricrave seed corn.
How much time does the plant need to totally drying down? When you reference frost kill, would that include a light frost which we get here in Northwest Ohio before the heaver frost that kills most plants?
Very interesting results on the Nutri-Crave. Fairly decisive test plot but I'll reserve my judgement for spring. It could prove beneficial in the end if it fills the gap between beans/field corn being depleted and spring green up. Strictly from a management perspective versus an attraction during deer season.
Good test. Deer love corn either way. One may be higher in protein or oil, but either way if you got corn its going to get devoured. Wonder if the tougher husk has anything to do with deer not eating the nutricrave as much.
You could use Prowl Herbicide on soybeans, corn and sorghum as a pre-emergent I believe . That might be a good option then you could spray all the plots at once and not have to worry about over lapping the herbicide..👍🏼
Between you, your dad, uncle and others that hunt your plots, how many does and anterless deer did all you harvest this past season? Looks like you have lots of deer left to feed after the hunting season has come to an end.
We didn’t take any does off the property this year but some of the surrounding neighbors did. There’s good deer numbers in the area but I wouldn’t say it overpopulated. Throughout the season more and more deer move into the area due to all the food we have.
I have thought about it in the past but never did plant any fruit trees. I don’t really have enough open space that I’d be willing to convert into a little orchard without taking more land from the family for ag rent.
@@mikeharrison1429believe was kieffer. Is a cooking pear and takes longer to mature fruit wise but deer love them. Also have bartlets both hold for long time. Very heavy fruiting
Yeah I know Ive been accused of it in the past in my food plot videos. When filming I tend to just point the camera where ever my eyes go and later on I see how shaky the footage is. I definitely need to add in some more overlay footage.
Yeah I know I’ve been accused of it in the past in my food plot videos. When filming I tend to just point the camera where ever my eyes go and later on I see how shaky the footage is. I definitely need to add in some more overlay footage.
