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

Table 2

Dates for select cultural practices that include planting, sidedress N, irrigation, and harvest at five site-years during the 2011 to 2014 growing seasons across northern and central Alabama.

Field operation	EVS^a			TVS^b
	2011	2012	2014	2012	2013
Planting date	April 4	April 2	April 13	April 4	April 13
Sidedress N	April 27	May 7	May 20	May 11	May 24
Irrigation events^c
1^st	April 26	April 25	July 1	May 23	May 30
2^nd	May 10	April 30	July 14	May 24	June 13
3^rd	May 27	May 27	July 31	May 29	June 18
4^th	June 3	June 20	August 12	June 12	June 20
5^th	June 13	June 29		June 14	June 25
6^th	June 15	July 18		June 19	June 27
7^th				June 21	July 2
8^th				June 26	July 18
9^th				June 28	July 30
10^th				July 3
11^th				July 5
12^th				July 26
13^th				August 7
14^th				August 9
Harvest	August 16	August 27	September 2	August 30	September 12

^aEVS, E.V. Smith Research Center. ^bTVS, Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center. ^cEach irrigation event (20 mm) was initiated every 7 d unless rainfall received exceeded 25 mm.