However, yield performance across the seed industry hasn’t been as ... “The reality is, we don’t really care if the corn is short or tall, but we have found as we push genetics to their ...

including the fact that feed corn varieties in the Corn Belt can grow 10 feet high or even taller. But that tall corn is vulnerable to wind damage, which is a “growing” problem with climate ...

BUT IN THE FUTURE, THAT TALL CORN, WHILE IT MIGHT NOT BE AS TALL. KCCI ZANE SATRE TALKED WITH THE FOLKS AT STINE SEED IN DALLAS COUNTY ABOUT WHY THAT’S HAPPENING. MOST IOWANS ARE USED TO SEEING ...

Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn ... have been working for a decade or longer to offer short-corn varieties. While the big goal has been developing corn that can ...

But timing matters—select early-maturing corn varieties such as Early Sunglow. The tall corn provides shade for the cucumber plants and the stalks can serve as a natural trellis for the cucumber vines ...

Sweet corn is a fast grower, developing tall stalks with bright green leaves. In the home garden, one corn plant usually produces one or two ears, and you can choose varieties with yellow, white, ...

But soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former self, replaced by stalks only half as tall as the green .

Stine has been breeding shorter varieties of corn for years. They classify short corn as having a height of 90 inches or less. Some of the company’s hybrids now top out at just five feet tall.