Corn got hammered across Iowa

[Dave-ECIA]

Hearing reports of a strong thunderstorm that moved from NE Nebraska across north central Iowa, and on into northern Illinois that knocked down 10's of thousands of acres of corn. Flat.

Most corn here is just shooting the first tassels, really bad time to knock it over.

How does the corn look in your area???

[cornandbeef]

Looks good here. Last year we had yellow corn everywhere. Right now corn is about 10 days behind.

[Dave-ECIA]

We caught up some the last few weeks, so we're only about a week behind normal. The corn i scouted this morning is starting to shoot tassels. The earliest corn is probably 80% tasselled, the late corn is maybe 10%. All planted within 7 days.

Corn is looking awesome with the exception of some small yellow spots. Soybeans are a little on the short side but full of blooms and looking pretty good.

[Gambi80]

My brother was in Byron (southwest of Rockford 20 mi), IL this morning when that rolled through...wow. 75+ mph wind. Lots of trucks blown over on I-39. Supposedly Chicago has 750,000 customers out of power....jeezus.

Luckily we've missed out on the big stuff 'here', except for that hail a couple weeks ago. Everything looks good, could use a bit of rain though...corn is starting to tassle.

[Dave-ECIA]

Heard a report from between Cedar Rapids and Waterloo that a trailer lot had about 6 or 7 trailers blown across I-380. They were estimating 75-90mph winds.

[Gambi80]

Driving up and down I-39 today and a few miles on either side of rt30 there's quite a bit of corn blown over...pretty ugly.

[2+2, MN]

I heard Parts of Chigaco are with out power, and then when crews were working on it a bunch of hte Copper got stolen so they had to start over.
72 day corn i planted a few row of tassled last week, Rest is just starting now, Corn planted May 3 threw the 5th. Last few acres was planted June 4th. its grwing fast. should be able to chop it for silage and rest for High moisture corn in oct/nov.

[td15]

We had a bunch knocked down in that storm but amazinely most of it has stood back up. Has a bit of a crook to it. Should be fun combining this fall. Ordered a corn reel just in case its needed.

[Mrs B]

Dave, I think you may be surprised at how quickly and how well some of that corn comes back to more upright. Maybe not perfect, but sure better than it looks now. We've been thru that more times than I care to remember over the past 10 yrs or so, and while it sure isn't ideal, it's not usually a deal-breaker. We bought a Kelderman corn reel several years ago for just such an event. The corn will likely gooseneck quite a bit, but if it's not tasseled yet, or in the very early stages of tassel, it should come back up fairly well. Good luck!!

[Dave-ECIA]

Jul 16, 2011 22:11:46 GMT -5 Mrs B said:

Dave, I think you may be surprised at how quickly and how well some of that corn comes back to more upright. Maybe not perfect, but sure better than it looks now. We've been thru that more times than I care to remember over the past 10 yrs or so, and while it sure isn't ideal, it's not usually a deal-breaker. We bought a Kelderman corn reel several years ago for just such an event. The corn will likely gooseneck quite a bit, but if it's not tasseled yet, or in the very early stages of tassel, it should come back up fairly well. Good luck!!

Know it all too well, Mrs B. Back in my Pioneer days, I bought several truckloads of Kelderman reels for customers, put them together and mounted them, then ride for hours while being chewed on by customers. Thank god that mess is behind me now.

Many times I've seen it gooseneck one row over and still have a decent yield if the damage was done prior to tassel. This corn is tasseling now, kinda right on the border between safe and not.

Talked to an agronomist that works the area and he thought most of it will stand back up with moderate goosenecking. Of course, there are extremes on both side.