Posted by JDEM on June 18, 2017 at 05:57:57 from (70.194.14.34):
I posted awhile back about losing all my sweet corn and having to replant, over and over. Somebody suggested treating the seed with Avipel. I tried and kind of gave up. I just replanted for the third time. I still do not know what is taking all the corn just as it emerges.
We had the same problem last year but not quite as bad. We planted twice and the 2nd time had two radios in the field blasting rock music 24 hours a day, plus plastic netting over the corn (expensive and a real pain to put and get off).
This year besides our normal field that has four strands of electric solar fence, we have a "test patch" that has real fencing that nothing bigger then a chipmunk can get into unless it has wings. Same problem. We have marker sticks about 5 feet high at the ends of each row. Oddly any corn near those sticks is fine and is now near 12" tall. All else has been totally removed. No sign of anything.
I asked around last year and this year at local dealers about Avipel and got nowhere. So last week I contacted the company that makes it. They told me to buy it in the state of Michigan, I should contact the MSU (Michigan State University). So I did and their resident "ag expert" never even heard of Avipel, but said he would research it. He finally got back to me and gave me the name of one dealer in my area who sells it. I then called up that dealer and he said the MSU is "full of it" and he has never even heard of Avipel. So, I said the "heck with it" and just replanted for the third time and hoping for the best. Last year, as the season got later (like now), the problem went away. I assume whatever is doing the damage got bored and moved on to something else?
Note we are in a very rural area with a mix of large ag farms and woods and swamps. Huge corn, potato, and bean fields around. As to our corn damage - I suspect sandhill cranes since there are a bunch nesting in my swamp nearby. I have never seen them in our field yet though.
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