Corn production well off

Do not know of other areas but not seeing any reality of good in corn here. A few friends and contacts been pulling sample ears as stalks dry down, silks are mostly dried up, a few never pollinated and remain white with the stalk dead, shucked ears tell the true story.
For four counties around us ears are 1/2 -2/3 filled out, kernels are small and already deep dimpled, one sample tested at 27% moisture where estimations on fields that generated 210-240 b/a just a few years ago MIGHT make 150 this go, as well will be docked for small grain size and poor grade outs. Several are considering letting beef onto the fields as a feed out as will not regain the costs to harvest where insurance will not pay anything.

Our area observed 10.7” of rains in the month of July alone (July 6-20th) !!
What does that mean? If your corn pollinated towards the earlier timing (end of June & up til July 6th), it probably did ok & may exhibit good kernel development?
But if it pollinated during that heavy rainy period, lots of pollen grains could have been washed out of tassel &/or washed off ear silks, thus leading to No or very poor kernel development.
Corn tassels usually only shed pollen from 10~12am til 6pm? each day.
And good Viable pollen only lives about 12 hours? Also if your area experienced a drought prior to & during pollination, dry/hotter air temps could damage pollen production within the tassel, rendering it sterile? If so, any amount being shed is pointless.
To further complicate, ear silks are made up of 90% water. So any drought conditions could also limit silk growth.
IF,,, a field has no or reduced soil compaction that could enable good deep (5-8’?) corn root growth? Then, healthier plant’s roots may be tapped into lower ground water which may enable normal silk growth even during a drought?

Edited by AC7060IL - 6 hours 36 minutes ago at 11:47am

planted BEANS here this year... First time in about 8 years..