corn blown over

[Clint S]

I lost a good chunk of my corn patch to being blown over in a very high wind today. What should I do, try to put it back up or just see where it goes? It's still a week or two from being mature.

 

[sixdogs]

Leave it alone and it will finish growing either sideways or try to stand up and grow. When mine blows over I gasp in shock but it always seems to work out. Let it go and hope for the best is what I would do. Mine blows over every couple of years.

 

[oldballs]

What sixdogs said.

 

[mddorange]

Ditto as sixdogs said! I have always been amazed at how well it will recover as long as it wasn't completely uprooted.

 

[oldnslo]

If laying down real bad I have seen feed rollers installed on the outer snouts to help lift / feed the downed corn into the header. These are driven via hydraulic motors. Seen my neighbor use them twice in the last five years on downed corn.

Like the other say, give it a couple weeks and see what happens.

 

[sixdogs]

Let us know how this turns out.

 

[Clint S]

It's sweetcorn not uprooted . I will let it lie and see were it goes

 

[oosik]

I had the neighbors cows stomp down some of my corn and the ears they didn't eat, matured and were fine.

 

[bigtiller]

I had the neighbors cows stomp down some of my corn and the ears they didn't eat, matured and were fine.

My neighbors cows did the same thing, several times. I think I fed them more corn than he did.

 

[Clint S]

So far so good most of it stood back up. It will be ready next week I think

 

[dadster4]

Same thing happened to mine...stood it back up and it was doing well...until the bear came in two nights in a row and finished it off for good. 200 stalks, 5 ears made it to my plate:hissyfit:

 

[sixdogs]

Another note on blown over corn is that I think--just think--that too much nitrogen is a part of the problem. The nitrogen makes the corn grow so fast that the new growth is too fragile and the corn is too tall to handle the wind. Over decades of doing corn, I've noticed a correlation between too much N fertilizer and corn susceptibility to wind damage. I'm prone to "more is good" thinking but I've tried to take it easy on N fertilizer and think I've had less wind damage. Just a thought.