Texas/New Mexico Stateline | JaegerFarms - 9/16/2016 17:54
What you are seeing is the result of the female portion of the tassel not terminating. This makes the tassel-ear. It is extremely rare for this to happen on the main stalk, lots of times these will show up on tillers (sometimes called "suckers") arising from the base of the corn plant. Is this on the edge of the field? Sometimes with the extra sunlight and less competition the plants on the endrows will shoot out some tillers and these will end up with tassel ears.
I'm seeing that a lot in my low population corn. All the "tillers" made an ear in the top. And I guarantee you guys it was not ever flooded or had too much water!!! If anything the stress of the heat may have influenced it some.
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Ear where tassel should be
