It should be fine. It will stand up on it's own in a few days.

Agree. You'll be surprised how much will come up on its own within a couple of days.

You can always try to get in there now and carefully try to help it some but I usually end up doing more damage when I try that. Best to wait a few days and then fix up the last ones.

Dave

Thanks y'all I'm going to give it a day or two to dry out and try and stand it back up. I tried to stand up a few but the soil is so waterlogged it just fall back over:(

I doubt that it will fully stand back up...probably curve up some. If it was mine, I would get out there in a few hours later in my boots and straighjten it up....done it many times.

Corn 1 foot or shorter will fully straighten up itself. Corn 2 feet tall will straighten up about 80%. Corn 3 feet tall will curve back up fair. Corn taller just will be tangled some. The corn in the picture is rather mild.

Wayne, ill be out there first thing in the morning and stand them back up, they're still standing in water, but the rows are raised, most of the water is between the rows. I'm going to try and run some rope and tie it off on each end to kind of help it stand since the grounds so wet. The silks were just starting to emerge. How do y'all think this will effect the yield. My neighbors corn is just as bad. This weather is driving me nuts. Nothing like the last couple of years.

Wayne, have you ever saved corn layed over this bad?

Well that was an experience I will never forget. I shoveled dirt, well mud from the center of the rows and packed it around the base of the stalks while my wife held them up. I hope they do ok. {{gwi:74106}}

This happened to us a couple of years. They do come up alot on their own (and with the help of the sun), but if they're really knocked down flat, they might need a little help. What hubby and I did was put metal stakes at the ends of each row and pulled twine across, to hold each row up. Even when they're knocked down, they will make ears.

Another way to hopefully keep this from happening as much, is to dig furrows in the spring, and plant the seed down in the furrow. Then as the plants grow, you fill in the dirt and actually hill the plants up. It gives them more support against the wind. Looks like you're okay now............until the racoons show up! haha

hyncrk, Yeah, I've had tasseled corn laid over that bad and worse.

I don't trench corn when planting [actually plant in ridges a bit] because it is quite wet here in the spring 9 out of 10 years i would say....I start early [April].

Sometimes the corn is laid length wise down the row...twine might not help.

hnycrk, you said " I shoveled dirt, well mud from the center of the rows"

As Dave said, You probably did more damage than good. As close as that corn is planted you were digging feeder roots up with that mud!

Have you ever tilled between the rows after the corn was over a foot tall and saw that the corn kinda slumped for a few days?

That is because you are cutting roots!

OP, IMHO, It is best to just leave it alone. I always have and my neighbor didn't. He would get out there and try to straighten it up and stuff and mine would always do better.

If we didn't have a high wind storm and he didn't have to "fix" it we would usually have about the same yield.

I learned that from an old farmer that new his stuff, My Dad!

This post was edited by wertach on Sat, Jun 29, 13 at 14:20

Well hopefully I didn't do to much damage. When I say center of the row I meant between the rows because I grow it in raised rows 3ft apart. Here's an older pic to show what I mean between the rows like where all the water was. Ill keep y'all posted on the outcome.
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