One of the farm meetings I went to talked about that - they were saying a 4 foot tall corn would be perfect, it would use less energy for all that top growth & put more energy into the ear; as well would not fall over so easily. Less 'trash' to deal with in fall, and less material to pass through the cornhead as other bonuses. The problem is the tallest corn gets more sunlight than it's neighbor, so we just naturally select for tall corn as the best yielding stuff. They wondered if breeders weren't working on that issue.
I won't complain about corn here in southern MN, many have t a lot worse, but I hear of good looking corn from the road has a lot of small ears once you get 20 rows into the field, not filled out, etc. I suppose 140-150 is where we will be, was way too wet at planting, way too dry the past month, glad to see the corn out there that is there for the conditions.
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