Early Corn

I have previously discussed the virtues of early corn.  The corn below was planted on April 2.  It is the earliest corn I know of and it is located near Staunton.  It is difficult to give it scale in the photo, but this corn is about waist high on a 6 footer.  It had fall applied anhydrous which had to be supplemented with additional nitrogen.  I suspect it will be tasseling in about 3 weeks which will have it mature the last week of August.  The farmer and I agree that this corn really only needs 2 more properly timed rains to make an excellent crop.  I wish all his early planted corn looked this good.  He had 70 acres planted on April 8 that needed to be replanted.