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Dmpaul89
Posted 5/6/2016 23:58 (#5286741)
Subject: corn damage whats causing it


Sw. Ill		What digs the corn out makes a hole and leaves the plant lay like that? Cutworm.? Or digging geese. I saw geese in the field the other day. Was too muddy to spooke them off and no gun at the time. Some areas like this have goose foot prints in the mud some dont. Seems to be randomly spread but more in the wetter areas. Not a huge amount but noticeable if you look for it.



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School Of Hard Knock
Posted 5/7/2016 00:15 (#5286753 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


just a tish NE of central ND		My vote is for the feathered rats...
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XIX
Posted 5/7/2016 00:23 (#5286757 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Sand hill crane.
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cIAag
Posted 5/7/2016 00:49 (#5286767 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Like the other two posters said, it's some sort of bird. Probably the geese you were seeing.
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carlsoncl
Posted 5/7/2016 01:16 (#5286774 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Beresford, SD		Here that is caused by pocket gophers. Little sh1t heads will clean 20 ft of row out every night. I have a farm across from a cemetery, deal with it every year. Makes for Sunday afternoon fun with my son and the ruger. I'd guess you have a goose problem based on what you've stated.

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Curious
Posted 5/7/2016 04:32 (#5286787 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


NW IA		"Here", NW IA, it would be striped gophers, aka ground squirrels. There would be a small open hole with this kind of destruction in a circle around it, or near a fence or the edge of a hay field. They can sometimes be seen during the day. One neighbor used to keep an .22 on the tractor back in the day when you drug, hoed, cultivated multiple times and pick them off. When I was a sprout I would park the tractor tire over their hole and rum em down, they pooped out in a short run, now I'm sure one could outlast me.

Without evidence of a hole must be the airborne rats. Not having that problem here, I would have thought that geese would eat the whole plant?



Never have seen a pocket gopher do this kind of work.
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rtng
Posted 5/7/2016 05:04 (#5286806 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Geese. where you dont see tracks its probably because there was standing water when they were there. thats their usual mo, to go to water.
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mn2
Posted 5/7/2016 06:34 (#5286880 - in reply to #5286806)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


We have pheasants do a lot of damage just like that. Tell me how they know exactly where the kernels are. It's the way it is but they'll hurt the stand in places.
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Mikenesd
Posted 5/7/2016 07:17 (#5286942 - in reply to #5286880)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Clark SD

mn2 - 5/7/2016 05:34

We have pheasants do a lot of damage just like that. Tell me how they know exactly where the kernels are. It's the way it is but they'll hurt the stand in places.

 We have the same thing happen here with pheasants and stripped gophers. I have been told that they sense the co2 given off by the roots. Just a thought, if that is the case, maybe planting into green rye would throw off there calibration. LOL

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jd43
Posted 5/7/2016 07:39 (#5286971 - in reply to #5286942)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Northeastern Pa.		I am having the same issue here. Corn is struggling to come up and then it's being cut off. Cut worms ?
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buddscreek
Posted 5/7/2016 08:00 (#5287005 - in reply to #5286971)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


have that problem out here as well, but it's crows and gray squirrels.
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Cat33
Posted 5/7/2016 07:48 (#5286988 - in reply to #5286942)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


NE SD		Pheasants here as well.
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TacoTuesday
Posted 5/7/2016 07:51 (#5286992 - in reply to #5286942)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Pheasants Forever is a joke. Release birds and plant food plots next to fields then refuse to address the problem in the spring. Regional director has voice mailbox full, no way of contacting him. 60 % stand in one field.
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Bad Dog
Posted 5/7/2016 09:24 (#5287108 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it



NW WI		In my field, that would be geese or sandhill cranes.
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Dmpaul89
Posted 5/7/2016 10:51 (#5287190 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Sw. Ill		The joy of farming lake side
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aqf
Posted 5/7/2016 12:28 (#5287305 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


WC Illinois		Geese. We may be dealing with the same flock of flying rats!




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Dmpaul89
Posted 5/7/2016 17:46 (#5287569 - in reply to #5287305)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Sw. Ill		Yup!
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gemarsh
Posted 5/7/2016 13:28 (#5287363 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it



Central NE		Striped gophers here. Two ways I have been dealing with them. NOT PETA APPROVED.

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gemarsh
Posted 5/7/2016 13:32 (#5287368 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it



Central NE		She needed trained, but she lives to get them herself...



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Illini Fan
Posted 5/7/2016 20:40 (#5287785 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it



Greene County, Illinois

In my case, a few years ago, it was red wing blackbirds.  Nobody would believe me, until the university, a couple of weeks later, reported problems with blackbirds because they hadn't traveled north yet.

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2520
Posted 5/7/2016 22:23 (#5287966 - in reply to #5287785)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


farmington missouri		I see the red wing blackbirds in my corn also
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oliver farm
Posted 5/9/2016 12:40 (#5290376 - in reply to #5286741)
Subject: RE: corn damage whats causing it


Almost 100% sure that is striped gopher damage. I have them little buggars and that is what it looks like. They don't bother the beans, but they dig up the corn like that.
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