(Algona, IA) — Some Iowa corn fields were battered or knocked over by last week’s storms and I-S-U Extension Field Agronomist Gentry Sorenson says over the next few days, the upper stalk of the corn may start to shift, or “goose neck.”
He says the corn will “try to upright itself,” and as it does “it’ll form a crook in the base of the stalk.” Goose necked corn creates headaches during harvest, as the corn cobs fall or break off before they’re captured by the combine.
The latest Iowa crop and weather report indicates the vast majority of Iowa’s corn crop is in good shape.
