corn blown over

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Clint S

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I lost a good chunk of my corn patch to being blown over in a very high wind today. What should I do, try to put it back up or just see where it goes? It's still a week or two from being mature.
 
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Leave it alone and it will finish growing either sideways or try to stand up and grow. When mine blows over I gasp in shock but it always seems to work out. Let it go and hope for the best is what I would do. Mine blows over every couple of years.
 
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What sixdogs said.
 
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Ditto as sixdogs said! I have always been amazed at how well it will recover as long as it wasn't completely uprooted.
 
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If laying down real bad I have seen feed rollers installed on the outer snouts to help lift / feed the downed corn into the header. These are driven via hydraulic motors. Seen my neighbor use them twice in the last five years on downed corn.

Like the other say, give it a couple weeks and see what happens.
 
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Let us know how this turns out.
 
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It's sweetcorn not uprooted . I will let it lie and see were it goes
 
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I had the neighbors cows stomp down some of my corn and the ears they didn't eat, matured and were fine.
 
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I had the neighbors cows stomp down some of my corn and the ears they didn't eat, matured and were fine.

My neighbors cows did the same thing, several times. :) I think I fed them more corn than he did.
 
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So far so good most of it stood back up. It will be ready next week I think
 

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