My corn is tipping back, much like yours is, maybe more so, even in the irrigated groind. That corn has never lacked for moisture, and has no sign of nutrient shortage that I can see. All leaves are green, all the way to the bottom of the stalk, and once the corn was tall enough to be ridged (furrow irrigation) it never got so dry as to even heat curl.
One little field got a small amount of hail, which could account for it there, but the rest of the corn has had what I thought was a good life. My only guess is lack of sunshine. While we didn't get all that much rain over the summer, I don't think we had more than 3 sunny days in a row, in the last 2 months. The clouds would pass over us, on their way South into Kasnas, where they would dump a couple inches of rain. We usually got big sprinkles, but about every 10 days or so, we'd get 3/4 inch or so, up until this week. This week it was 1" monday night, 1" Tues night, and 3/4 inch last night.
