Your tallest corn stalk

JohnV2000

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I had some corn for dinner tonight and I started thinking about corn. I found some pictures of huge stalks of corn, but I was wondering what the tallest corn stalk you have ever grown is. Post a picture if you have one, corn is great!

This picture is from Iowa in 1942, it is 26 feet 10 inches tall.
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How in the word did that thing not fall over. One year on our farm we had stuff
that was taller than a 3 beater Gehl forage wagon. Guess 11 or 12 feet?
 
1 year we nursed liquid fertilizer on a 2 acre
patch by the creek,we flood irrigated it.i looked
for my pictures but i stood on top the cab on our
old 9600 jd.the stalks were about same height as
me. That patch beat 325 bushel per acre but it
would be cost prohibitive . We had our local
dekalb dealer nervous
 
My wife posing by some Indian corn back in 08, she is 5'3. We had an early frost that fall and I was trying to save the pumpkins next to it by running the sprinklers overnight...the water that hit the corn froze on it and the weight took it down...what a mess!
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I grew bloody butcher in the garden for a
while. I would save the biggest and
reddest ears for seed. The last year the
stalks were about 12 feet tall. I was
disappointed though. Only a few stalks had
ears. Then I looked up. Most of the ears
were 7 to 8 feet from the ground.
 
Chicken farmer I used to work for only had one field to spread the manure in, year after year. His corn was almost always 12'+ tall, and he grew grain corn that he picked for ears. He raised 16,000 broilers in three barns and had probably 3 rotations a year - can't remember for sure. 12 weeks from chicks to full grown. First job I ever had was catching chickens, tough way to make spending money.

Tim
 
Years ago when I grew it recreationally I tried a flint corn called Longfellow or Longello...something like that. I have a picture of it on the 4th of July. My girl is on my shoulders and it is about as tall as her head...so close to 8'. By end of season it was 16-18' tall. Most beautiful stand of corn I ever grew. Ears were 18"-20" long. One ear per plant. Had a few 300+ pound punkins over the years too.
 
MMM, I'm thinking that's not a legit pic. Seems to me to be a '40's version of photoshop or they spliced a few stalks together. Unless there's a story verifying it's true, and how it was grown without the wind blowing it over, I'm calling bunk on that one. Cool pic though, but I'd invest as much it to the veracity of that being real as a Nigerian email.
 
Saw a stalk that grew a second stalk where
it should have had an ear. Was near as tall
as the 9660 with bin extensions.

The last year we grew corn in Pennsylvania,
we planted some forage corn early in April.
Pull into the field with the dump truck,
stand on the fuel tank, and I could see the
top of the chopper spout and the roof of
the dump wagon. See the roof of the 7580 if
there wasn't too many rows between.
 
Back in 1982 I had a field of silage corn that was (consistently) 3-4ft above the cab of a JD 4040 tractor.It was Funk's Hybrid G4507.The field cut over 40 tons to the acre.I had the scale tickets to prove it.It was also very wet,the water just ran out of it. It was a fluke...Only fert was a single application of anhydrous.The poor tractor struggled to pull a one row cutter.
 
My first plot of 15 inch row corn. I used some left over seed from a tall growing variety and the row width plots were in a little 2 acre patch
surrounded by trees so very little wind stress. Stalks in one plot were all taller than the cab of the Gleaner K we used to harvest. This was
my first 15 inch plot and I learned a lot from it. Both that there was potential in rows less than 30 inches if the populations were to go
over 30 000 and that I needed to play with shorter corn.
 

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