I'm gonna go out on a limb here, but it might be because of this.
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that I am seeing? Literally about 98% of the area is down
I can vouch for this. West side of road somewhere around Smith Valley or Stones Crossing? At any rate, north of 144 and south of Southport. Just drove by there today.
I can vouch for this. West side of road somewhere around Smith Valley or Stones Crossing? At any rate, north of 144 and south of Southport. Just drove by there today.
What they're actually doing up here is planting the "female", then spiking in delayed "male" rows a couple weeks later. When tassels come they cut them off of the "female" rows and let the "male" rows pollinate the "female" rows. They do it this way to create new hybrids. Then what they harvest becomes the seeds the farmer buys for feed corn the following year.Corn Pollination - An Overview, AGF-128-95
there is no such thing as male or female corn..
corn has both parts.. If you detassled one row and not another, the one you left tasseled was the strain they wanted to mix with the others..
On a related note ...
Will there be any significant quantity of sweet corn this summer? If I'd known this was going to happen, I'd have been in the small fields and big gardens with fire hose trying to help!
yes, at a high price..
lots of small fields are grown for sweet corn.. fields small enough to water...
plus low land areas are still growing good..
Seems like a tremendous waste to leave a fifth of your crop just so an insurance adjuster can see it.
They're using what they cut for feed and probably getting a healthy insurance check, seems win-win.
Pretty sure it is for insurance. The rows left standing are likely for the Insurance agent to inspect, now and later when nothing forms. I can't wait to see food prices this fall Winter and into next year. It seems Like most of the food producing areas are either Flooded, in drought, or Burning Yeah!
they arent taking it in, they are mowing it down, salvaging what they can in silage for feed to make up for the shortage of corn coming this fall. The corn crop in many areas is a wash. Yeah, theres corn plants, but theyre wont be any ears to them