down corn

tomturkey · Aug 23, 2020

With somewhere between 10 and fourteen million acres of damaged crops, mostly corn, what will be done with all that down corn? Will it be stalk chopped and baled to get all that organic matter off of the fields? Some I've seen is so flat they think it may mold because of the layering. Most disks can't handle that much residue. What about all that volunteer corn next year. Whats the scuttle concerning these damaged fields? I know some will need to try and combine?to determine their loss, others will be considered a total loss without harvesting. Crop insurance may pay, but whose gonna fix the field and how???? gobble

paul · Aug 23, 2020

On the other forum a fella showed a video of him rolling 1000 acres of corn that was already flat, he had a crimping roller it looked like. I’m not sure what that accomplishes as I’m in a full till, make it black, part of the country but there was lots of approvals how that will help start the decomposition process somehow. Central Iowa is a lot warmer and drier and has a much longer fall so it must work there.

Here it would just make an ugly wet mat of material an even wetter and uglier mat of material that you couldn’t do much with.

I’d run a disk here, but I hope I’d never have to find out......

Paul

flying belgian · Aug 23, 2020

I'm still thinking most of it will come up enough to run the combine through it. Tornado went through a mile from me about a month ago. Completely flattened about 6 acres of neighbors corn. That corn has come up enough that I believe he will be able to run combine through.

David G · Aug 23, 2020

I live here, would assume about half that corn is totally flat, other half is mangled mess that might yield 80-100 BPA. I am trying to decide how best to dispose of mine. The extent of the damage is beyond anything you can imagine if you have not seen it.

Mark-Mi · Aug 23, 2020

All that corn residue mass is there every year. All that is removed is the ear. You would be surprised to see what some of these newer heavy tillage tools can do. Volunteer Round Up Ready corn. Plant to soybeans and spray any of the post emerge grass killers. Bye bye corn.

paul · Aug 23, 2020

I had a micro burst hit my corn with winds like that years ago but it was when the corn was ready for harvest. The mature corn was busted off knee high.

It was a miserable long terrible harvest, but the corn was good quality.

I can’t imagine how poor the corn quality will be with the stalks half snapped off at this stage, the ears won’t finish out right.

Really bad for folk wirh livestock, gotta go after it to have something to feed.

Paul

Bill(Wis) · Aug 24, 2020

Stalk choppers.

fixerupper · Aug 24, 2020

At this stage of the game I doubt the kernels will be viable seed next year if the corn is disked under now. If the field is planted to beans next year Clethodium will get the volunteer corn. If the field is planted to corn next year the only way the volunteer corn will be controlled is by planting a variety that is resistant to a herbicide the volunteer corn is not resistant to.

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