HowStuffWorks Show: Episode 1: Growing Corn

This clip from the HowStuffWorks show on the Discovery Channel focuses on the propagation of corn crops. Planting corn can be as simple as letting the wind carry seed, or as complicated as using GPS-aligned equipment to coordinate precise seed planting.

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[Kilhamjim]

@ecologist96 Beans fix nitrogen in an amount for the crops own needs. They do leave a surplus but as most Corn is spring sown most of the nitrogen left will leach out over winter. Any winter sown crops sown after beans would benifit after sowing , but only to get established,

[USAamericaUSA]

@ecologist96 Yeah at leat aroud here we go corn, beans (Soy Beans), corn, Beans.

[ecologist96]

@gvenema Well, we don't HAVE to use fertilizer. We could just do crop rotation. For example, if you rotate the beans right before the corn that would provide the extra nitrogen needed (I think it was beans at least). Plus they use natural gas to make fertilizer, not oil. Natural gas can be made from poo and farm waste (although it's mostly fossil nowadays).

[warmager]

@gvenema

Considering we are probably spending 1 litre of oil to grow 1 tonne of oil i would say thats a pretty good bargain

[Jon13bur]

They need to quit complaining about the nitrogen fertilizer. All these liberals like to eat, so leave the farmer alone and let him do his job.

[ThankGodImCountryBoy]

i love how he said some as wide as 60 feet, there are also ones 80 feet wide 90 feet wide, and the biggest is 120 feet wide.

[nchayfarmer]

thats on alot of ponds and is there in the summer we apply fertlizers in the winter months it goes away every october and comes back every august no big deal stil catch big healthy fish you just dont know what your talking about and take make it worse the last thing he was spraying was not nitrogen that yellow is a weed killer there just tryin to make it look bad as usual

[Frances3654]

humans are part of nature

[PhoenixNuke]

More like human selection. This doesn't happen in nature.

[Frances3654]

its natural selection in action, whats the problem?