John Anderson - Veedersburg, Indiana
The biggest advantage of twin-row is the ability to push populations up and still have healthy corn plants, not a small diameter corn stalk that will fall over in the wind but a healthy stalk that is the same diameter as if the corn was planted at 35,000 plants/acre in a 30” row.
I can harvest this corn (twin-row) with my conventional 30” cornhead. I didn’t have to spend $55,000 on a specialty cornhead that may or may not work.
With twin-row corn I have a 22 inch gap between the twins that I can run my sprayer in or sidedress without running
over the rows. I can also plant soybeans in twin-rows with no disadvantage, no problems.
When harvesting twin-row corn you will notice that there is a narrower middle and you will obviously see more stalks and foliage. You will notice that for the first round or two, then you absolutely forget that you are harvesting twin-row. The reminder will be when the full bin alarm goes off much sooner than you are used to.
I wanted to prove to myself that twin-row would or would not work…it works.