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Wanted to show some photos of corn without fertilization or irrigation

 
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And a bear that scratched an eastern red cedar. Corn grew with hardly any rain, the later planting came up without any rain, got at least one rain when it would’ve been size enough to fertilize. No rain for at least a month, finally we got a few inches of rain in a few days. Put into the ground with just the seed, no compost, added organic matter, or any type of fertilization. Field has what I would think of at least 100 lbs per acre of nitrogen. Had used ash and fired soil on field for earlier years planting. Field was neutral on purchase, along with proper amounts of P and K. Has a fracture at head of field that releases water, so some of the field is similar to a flood plain. You can see the fracture running diagonally across field, with increased growth. Use a lot of fire residual buried in rest of field, with little added to garden. I mow continuously with this amount of growth. Anyone else have a field that does this?
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I cannot see the fracture, how did you come to the figure of 100 lbs of Nitrogen per acre?
 
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It’s about 75 yards up the field, not in picture. The grass grows a lot faster their. Usually corn is grown with 120-180 lbs of nitrogen, so I figure with this amount of growth that it at least grows corn. There are soil test that you can test this, but I have found no reason to do this, as it grows well enough anyways.
 
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