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Assessing storm damaged corn

Alex Johnson, Sales Agronomist for LG Seeds spent most of Thursday, July 11, looking at storm damaged corn in Northwest Ohio. While the corn in those areas hit by high winds look bad, he tells Brownfield it could have been worse.

“If we would have received that severe of a storm three weeks ago, the results would have been much worse,” said Johnson. “And I say that because three weeks ago the corn was in a rapid growth stage and was very brittle, luckily the corn at this point, when the wind blew it caused a lot of root lodging and just bending over, but not very much breaking, so the corn will be able to spring back in the next week.”

Johnson says the biggest concern would be with the crop that is just beginning to pollinate.

“The further along the corn was, if was beginning pollination, or about to begin pollination that’s where we would have some concern, because of silks getting shaded by lodged corn.” the LG Seed representative said.

Audio: Alex Johnson, Sales Agronomist, LG Seeds (3:10 mp3)

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