It looks good, especially considering all the things I've done for the first time. There's nothing more to be done in the field until harvest time at the end of October.
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There is a lot of compaction at the entrances to the fields, where very few corn plants grew.
The corn appears to be healthy and growing well.
In the rows, missed by the rotary hoe and where I couldn't throw enough dirt with the row cultivator, there are some weeds. I expect that the shade from the growing corn will crowd out/kill most of these weeds. At this point there's no way for me to get rid of them.
As I said in the previous post, 10 to 13 acres, out of the 61 I have planted to corn here, have heavy foxtail pressure and will have this kind of weed pressure. The remaining ground is relatively weed free. Aside from not killing weeds so they don't return next year, I might suffer a yield "drag" as the weeds take nutrients from the corn, limiting my yield at harvest time.
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