Seed corn bags have been around for years, first made out of burlap and then paper. Bags vary in size from 35 to 65 pounds. Farmers open each bag and fill each row unit of their planter. One bag of seed corn contains 80,000 kernels and plants about 2.5 acres.
How much seed corn does it take to plant an acre?
"Planting 34,000 seeds per acre for irrigated corn and 24,000 to 30,000 for rainfed corn, depending on expected yield, with 30-inch row spacing is expected on average to give the best net returns."Apr 1, 2014
How many corn seeds are in a 50 pound bag?
However, even though the technology fee in this example is based on 4,600/230,000 seeds, in extreme cases there could actually be between 205,000 and 255,000 seeds in the 50-pound bag due to natural variation in seed size.