An agronomist with Pioneer says the corn stalks are getting weaker every day. Arika Wech tells Brownfield the long, dry stretch of weather prevented potassium uptake in the plants, and a lot of corn is one weather event from falling down. “Rain, you know, making that soil loose but also, the unpredictability with winds. I mean, you never know.”
Wech says she has been seeing a lot of barely-standing corn over the past week or two.