I was looking through my notes from several farms shows so far this summer.

I have had several customers in some very dry western areas report that corn either strip-tilled or no-tilled into wheat stubble withstood the dry weather and very hot temperatures much better than corn in tilled ground nearby.

Several reported that there will be at least a reduced corn crop to harvest in the wheat stubble where there was little to nothing (depending on the local area) to harvest in the conventional worked ground. These customers reported not a little difference but a dramatic difference in the corn crop.

Reading about the PA dry season below, did you folks see the corn planted into wheat stubble surviving significantly better than corn into worked ground? Elsewhere?

Jim at Dawn