Research Article

Corn Response Across Plant Densities and Row Configurations for Different Moisture Environments

Table 1

Planting dates, N fertilizer application dates, termination dates, and aboveground biomass measured for a rye (“Wrens Abruzzi”) cover crop at five site-years during the 2011 to 2014 growing seasons across northern and central Alabama.

Site-yearaPlanting dateN fertilizer dateTermination dateBiomass (kg·ha−1)

EVS 2011November 3, 2010February 16, 2011March 23, 20112300 (130)b
EVS 2012November 7, 2011February 24, 2012March 21, 20123435 (175)
EVS 2014December 16, 2013February 18, 2014March 27, 2014835 (40)
TVS 2012October 26, 2011December 9, 2011March 19, 20123365 (190)
TVS 2013November 16, 2012March 3, 2013March 28, 20132190 (155)

aEVS, E.V. Smith Research Center; TVS, Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center. bStandard error.