Corn can produce a crop even after lodging due to bad weather - experience
Corn after lodging as a result of bad weather in most cases is able to rise and produce a crop.
This conclusion was shared by Dmitry Nosenko, head of the Nosenko farm (the farm has 1,000 hectares in cultivation in the Novomoskovsky district of the Dnepropetrovsk region), writes The Ukrainian Farmer magazine.
According to him, last year, in some fields of the farm, 1.5-meter corn crops, overthrown by heavy rain with wind, rose.
The farmer has another experience: even at the beginning of his management, he was late with the application of herbicides to corn and decided to apply an increased dose of drugs. As a result, the corn plants lay down, but after a week and a half they rose and even gave 80 kg / ha (not least due to timely rains and top dressing). And only a crimson growth at the root reminded of the plant protection operation.
“It’s more difficult with a sunflower in this sense - it wouldn’t have risen,” the farmer added. - Once, 70% of my crops fell. It’s good that the stalks didn’t break, but this had almost no effect on the filling of baskets - as a result, they harvested 20 centners per hectare with special headers, although they hoped for a maximum of 10-12 centners.”
After that incident, the dead sunflower sprouted for many more years, even after several attempts to get rid of it.