But it did reach . . .

Martin was pretty close with his comment about uniform tassle height.

I think this stuff was just heat stressed. 111 degrees with no humidity and a SW wind just needed more moisture than the plants could uptake. I've never known this guy to be bashful about running his pivots and I doubt there was a shortage of soil moisture, the weather just took more than the roots could deliver. Actually, the corn was beautiful until the hot spell hit and then it actually looked much worse than when I took these pics. The whole field was a ghostly grey a week before. I think some of the difference in the foreground was because the edges took the full brunt of the hot wind, where further in, the evaporation from the crop may have cooled temps just a bit.

Here are a couple more un-cropped shots. I think this stuff is in 30" rows.

(stress.jpg)

(stress2.jpg)

stress.jpg (106KB - 82 downloads)

stress2.jpg (112KB - 77 downloads)