uneven corn?

Anything that slows the corn down will be _very_ noticable about this time of year.

Compaction.
Lack of N.
Too wet.
Insects.
Poor soil.
Too dry.
Seed depth/ spacing.
Shading from weeds.

You need to walk your 'field' and figure out why one plant had a great growth spurt, and the ones a couple feet over did not.

In 3 weeks, the effects will be less noticable, as the corn that had 'issues' will grow out of it & all the corn slows down to concentrate on setting stalk strength & ears & tassels & not so much on growing upward. However, those plants did lose 10-40 bu an acre as they had to play catch-up to the rest of the field.

You are looking at the corn at it's break-away racing phase, and for some reason some of the plants missed the green flag start. You need to figure out why if yield is important to you.

_Just_ adding fert might not help, until you know the real problem causing this.

--->Paul

10-10-10 will either short you on N or overload your soil with P & K if you don't balance things out at times with more straight N. Depends on manure used, crop rotation, plowdown clover, etc. The 10-10-10 at 100-150 lbs per acre is a pretty good starter tho.

--->Paul

matt