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| I've seen insect feeding/silk clipping cause some wierd stuff. Here's one scenario that might have happened......
Bugs clip the silks from time of silk emergence and through most of the pollen shed. All the silks get grown out to the end of the ear, but no farther. The bugs leave for whatever reason bugs leave and the silks start to regrow.. You're at the end of pollen shed so there's not a "fog" of pollen in the field and the silks on the underside of the silk ball don't get pollinated. That's the strip of spotty kernels you're seeing.
However it happened, something kept the pollen from getting to the silks on the bottom of the ear. Could have been a lack of sufficient pollen for whatever reason, but I'm betting on bugs interupting the normal course of things.
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What would your guess be as to the cause of areas with no/small kernals?
