Header loss and down corn can quickly destroy your late-season profitability. On today's episode, we step out into the field to discuss how to evaluate stalk strength before the combines roll.Learn why nitrogen-deficient corn cannibalizes its own stalk to fill the ear, how crown rot disease impacts late-season intactness, and how to build a strategic field-by-field harvest plan that protects your grain quality and operational efficiency.Inside this episode:Moving past planting-date assumptions during fall planningIdentifying cannibalized stalks in low, saturated field spotsManaging hybrids with lower late-season intactness ratings