The Gazette

‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate

Cameron Sorgenfrey walks among short corn stalks in one of his fields, Sept. 16, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) Buy Photo WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in ...
KCCI Des Moines

Scientists developing shorter corn stalks to resist high winds

Bayer Crop Science is developing a new corn hybrid that could be more wind resistant.The hybrid was developed to grow to be about one-third shorter than today's conventional corn. The corn's shorter ...
Alaska Dispatch News

‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate

WYOMING, Iowa — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other ...
Columbus Dispatch

Garden: Growing sweet corn in the home garden

Is there any vegetable that screams Ohio summer more than sweet corn eaten on the cob? Some gardeners might argue that the tomato is the more popular vegetable grown in Ohio, and it is the state fruit ...