I think you're doing great! Thanks for sharing the details of what you did and showing us the results.

Outstanding.

Beautiful stand

This got recommended to me and I couldn't have been happier. Seeing living soil applied to a real corn farm warms my Midwestern stoner heart. Great work!

I applaud your efforts in regenerative farming, and your willingness to experiment with non-GMO seed and reduced chemical treatments. This was a very informative video in how you integrated the different methods. Thanks for sharing!

You're doing all the right stuff! Last year I planted 'naked' Reids. This year I switched to high protein corn (Reids is 9% while dark blue/red/purple varieties like blue hopi bloody butcher jimmy red go 12-15%). One of the hog farmers I know switched to higher protein and saw his pig litters increase by 20% and less medications needed than when feeding gmo/hybrid 3-5% protein corn. Because of the six week drought we had right when the corn needed to germinate, I learned not to terminate the cover until after the corn emerges. The cover (winter rye for me) draws up moisture from below plus shades the ground and helped germination while shading out all the weeds until the corn was ready to go.

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New sub. Can’t wait to see the results.

It's all about the fungal network you have. Fungi is how plants communicate and help each other. When you get your fungal to bacteria to a 1:1 ratio you will have barly any weeds. Weeds don't like fungal Dominant soils. The number 1 way to kill the fungi in the soil is tilling.

Technically all corn is GMO. Corn was one of the first crops genetically modified by native Americans to grow bigger.

Looks very good. I can't see any nutrient deficiency issues except for pockets of phosphorus deficiency and a little more nitrogen could have helped. As far as getting 300bu/ac corn, you could have planted it a little more densely and sprayed fertilizer (maybe a 10-20-10 liquid feed or something like that) on during dry spells since the corn would not have had access to soluble soil nutrients during that time. For organic, I guess that may mean adding some rock phosphate. Adding subsequent nitrogen would be hard since organic rules wouldn't allow a follow-up manuring because of the 90-120 day rule. I guess you could theoretically compost the manure then spray compost tea, but the operational complexity makes me guess it wouldn't be profitable. What does your soil test look like?

What are you burning down the over crop with? Could you not harvest or mow the wheat then drill the corn?

OLF "secret sauce" " is compost tea bacteria multiplied by shugar?

I asked pioneer yesterday, can I get my grain sorghum and field corn "naked'', their reply no. We I guess I won't be buying them anymore