Row spacing studies at Cornell on corn silage have shown about a 5 percent benefit to decreasing row spacing from 30 to 15 inches. Forage quality of corn silage produced in narrow rows has been similar to that produced in wide rows at the same plant population.
Diabetes & Insulin. In diabetes, your body does not make enough insulin or use it properly. This causes your blood sugar to go too high. Oral medications, like metformin, may help your body to use insulin more efficiently. Other oral medications can help your body make more insulin.
Lactic acidosis occurs rarely, but it can be fatal in more than 50% cases and usually occurs in diabetes patients with significant kidney dysfunction. Symptoms of lactic acidosis include weakness, sleepiness, slow heart beat, feeling cold, muscle pain, shortness of breath, loss of consciousness, etc. Although metformin does not directly cause kidney damage, the patients who have kidney damage and or kidney disease should not use the medicine.