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Storms wreck corn crop.

muleman

muleman

Gone But Not Forgotten
After lucking out most of the summer we got hammered last night with over 2 1/2 inches of rain and hard SE winds. It knocked about 25% of corn over. I don't know if it will come back or not. I even had rain in the steers feed trough under the barnyard roof it blew that hard. No other damage that I have seen yet but I did not go down the hill yet.
 
I am hoping tomorrow I can stand it back up and stomp the ground around it to stabilize it. I had just added fish emulsion yesterday morning and watered it good. May have left the ground too wet. At least the rain did not wash the lane out at all. Need to clean one drain pipe of some rocks but the gravel stayed on the lane. Once we get into cooler weather I will plant some more of the runoff areas with grass.
 
With the weight of the ear, it is hard for corn to stand back up. I think the plant is putting every thing into grain fill, and very little else seems to matter. I know winds this time of year make me very nervous indeed. 1,000 acers nervous....

Regards, Kirk
 
Mine is sweet corn and it mostly damaged the smaller second crop plants. The Amish will be cutting some silage tomorrow from some of theirs. The stuff in the hollow is fine but on top like i am it must have blasted hard. Unusual to have it come from the SE as well. That usually only happens with a southern snowstorm around here. I measured and we got just shy of 3" of rain in am 8 hour or less period.
 
I had about 25% knocked down this spring and it had ears on it. Small ears and a lot of it did get back up and product. Corn is funny but in your case Mule it may not if you got heavy ears.
 
Cow and calf elk found my garden this year .Usually they don't bother it but my Bassit died of old age. They ate some corn but really mowed down my pepper plants. One of the bulls worked over a small willow tree on the other side of my home.
It's a really poor growing season this year anyway. Corn is just getting ripe the peppers would not of got ripe. I expected them to get the willow ,even with the steel fence post around it.
Jim
 
I built a mole shotgun trap and next year I think it will be set up in my garden. Last night I had an ear of corn for dinner that had 1/3 bit off .
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I'm curious about your mole shotgun trap. Can you share more pictures? Maybe start a new thread - it looks pretty vicious.
 
JimVT said:
Cow and calf elk found my garden this year .Usually they don't bother it but my Bassit died of old age. They ate some corn but really mowed down my pepper plants. One of the bulls worked over a small willow tree on the other side of my home.
It's a really poor growing season this year anyway. Corn is just getting ripe the peppers would not of got ripe. I expected them to get the willow ,even with the steel fence post around it.
Jim
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I just realized you are out here on the West coast, yes it has been a bad growing season. Everything is a month behind this year and it seems like it is ending too soon. I haven't seen any successful local corn crops around.
 
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