Tom, I'm both a former farmer and a gardner who is raising sweet corn. The answer is, it depends. I've had every stalk of my sweet corn blown down this year, and all of it is standing up. One patch has been blown down twice, and is still up enough to harvest. If the corn is young, 24" or less, it'll stand back up and you'll never know it went down. Larger corn at the tassel stage will still stand back up, but will be "goosenecked" a bit at the ground. If the corn has started to develop ears, it's harder for it to stand up, and it'll stand partially, with "cradle rocker" stalks. That's the condition of my patch that was blown down twice. Still producing plenty of ears, though.
Having said all that, if field corn blows down that is fairly mature with a heavy ear and a stalk that has finished growing , it's not going back up at all....
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