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South Central MN | I'm starting to think I've seen some worse stuff than most since I used to work for a canning company that did sweetcorn. That would lay flat from a stiff breeze if the ground was soaked, and the field corn beside it was standing perfectly straight.
It will stand back up but have a bit of a gooseneck to it, the earlier the better since before tassel it will straighten out more. Might only be off by a couple inches.
Try picking 22" corn that was laid flat shortly after tassel, it will stand back up but not all plants are the same, then add green leaves to it, and absolutely no row of tassels to follow. Looks like solid seeded corn. Or later when the cob is a couple inches off the ground but the top curled back up. At some point it just gets easier to 1 way pick at an angle.
The last picker I ran was one of the Oxbow 8840's that the company got for sweetcorn, was a dream with an actual corn head that had snout tips like a grain corn head. The older ones would curl under the moment you got them too low, so for some of us to have only bent 1 or 2 over several years was quite good. | |
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Flat corn
