Corn plot damage

[Jimmy G]

Quick question for everyone. Some of my corn plants have gotten a haircut to my disappointment, ideas on the culprit?

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[roymunson]

had that happen to mine last year on a 2 acre piece. We blamed ground hogs. and deer chomping off the leader. Dont now that that's 100% true, but we saw groundhogs destroying corn.

Kinda miserable, but we got dry as soon as the corn was up, so it shot out of the ground, but then flat lined. Never had a chance to really grow up out of reach, and by the time hunting season came along, there wasn't an ear on it. It turned into a corridor for deer to drift thru. Wasn't all bad, but for feeding it didn't work.

 

[MRBB]

deer will eat it, bears, ground hogs, coons, and odds are many more things
hard to say, are there NO tracks to see ??

 

[Jimmy G]

No deer tracks, I've got really sandy soil and can see anything that goes thru. Any insects that would lop the top off?

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[roymunson]

No deer tracks, I've got really sandy soil and can see anything that goes thru. Any insects that would lop the top off?

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Kinda doubt a bug would be that thorough on each plant.

could be a rodent of some sort

 

[homerj]

If the whole plot has as much thatch as the pic indicates, a fawn track wouldn't be visible. Neither would a groundhog track