{"id":20,"date":"2025-08-19T22:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/?p=20"},"modified":"2025-08-20T01:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T01:04:45","slug":"tight-tassel-wrap-grips-corn-crops-in-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"How &#8216;Tight Tassel Wrap&#8217; is Squeezing Corn Farmers Already Reeling from Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"727\" src=\"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Corn-Tight-tassel-wrap-Photo-by-Ryan-Gentle-1024x727.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Corn-Tight-tassel-wrap-Photo-by-Ryan-Gentle-1024x727.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Corn-Tight-tassel-wrap-Photo-by-Ryan-Gentle-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Corn-Tight-tassel-wrap-Photo-by-Ryan-Gentle-768x546.png 768w, https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Corn-Tight-tassel-wrap-Photo-by-Ryan-Gentle.png 1340w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agriculture.com\/tight-tassel-wrap-is-showing-up-in-the-corn-belt-heres-what-farmers-should-know-11777025\">Tight Tassel Wrap Is Showing Up in the Corn Belt \u2014 Here\u2019s What Farmers Should Know &#8211; By Mariah Squire  &#8211; Successful Farming<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insurancejournal.com\/news\/midwest\/2025\/08\/19\/836292.htm\">Ugly Corn Photos on Social Media Show Risk Posed to Record US Crop &#8211; By Erin Ailworth and Michael Hirtzer &#8211; Insurance Journal<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tight tassel wrap is a condition where the top flag leaf of a corn plant stays bound to the developing tassel, preventing the tassel from fully emerging and properly shedding its pollen. The condition is being widely reported this year in 2025 across several states, including Indiana, Iowa, and Illinois and is believed to be a type of &#8220;rapid growth syndrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tight Tassel Wrap Is Showing Up in the Corn Belt \u2014 Here\u2019s What Farmers Should Know &#8211; By Mariah Squire &#8211; Successful Farming Ugly Corn Photos on Social Media Show Risk Posed to Record US Crop &#8211; By Erin Ailworth and Michael Hirtzer &#8211; Insurance Journal Tight tassel wrap is a condition where the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-natural-disasters"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.risksolutionsgroup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}