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Short corn: How shrinking Iowa’s top crop could help farmers
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 ...
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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
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 ...
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Short corn: How shrinking Iowa’s top crop could help farmers
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.
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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
But soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former self, replaced by stalks only half as tall as the green ... promise of offering farmers a variety that can withstand powerful ...