The size of the udder.
Big picture o’ sorghum in the field. It *does *look like corn, 'cept for the flowery bit on top.
Not necessarily.
Field corn can be popped as I found out by accident. My uncle was burning a pile of boards from a shed and brush. Some ears of field corn were setting on a board in the fire, so no direct flames were on the ears. The kernels started to pop in the hot gases of the fire.
Let’s not pursue this in GQ.
The trend in hybrid corn is for short stalks. And I’m not sure about the latest fashions in hybrid corn but I’ve never seen a cornstalk with more than one ear. Has something changed?
Yes. You see almost exculively hybrids now, and no local specific varieties. Even the hybrids grow much bigger in river bottom land like around Darington in Wisconsin. The super large ones are basicaly heirloom varieties.
12 -15 foot corn.
12-16 foot corn normal size, 18-20 foot in special conditions.
Six Shooter Corn about six ears per stalk.
I’d forgotten about pod corn. Each kernel has a husk around it in addition to the ear husk.
There is also a wild perenial variety in Mexico, that was found in the last couple decades. Some experimentation has been done in producing perrenial domestic corn. None is available for the public as far as I know. They thought that not having to plant corn every year and saving the gas, would out way weed control concerns.
Wild corn is short has a few kernels per ear, and is very diminutive.
All corn may produce some kernels on the tassel in addition to the ears.
Flint corn is another classafication.
I don’t know about Wisconsin but I got curious as to how a cornstalk could support 6 or even 3 ears so I called my cousin who is married to a real live farmer in Iowa. In fact they sold their farm just a few months ago and moved to town.
In northwestern Iowa they get one ear of corn per stalk. Yields can go as high as 200 bushels/acre. This year they are expecting about 175 and you can pretty much depend upon at least 150 even in a poor year.
I have grown corn for about 35 years. My uncles have farms where corn is grown. I have picked sweet corn by hand for market. I have been in corn fields all over Wisconsin. They average 2 or three ears per stalk most of the time. I gave you a link for a six ear variety of corn. What’s your problem? Are you suggesting that all these companies fabricated the information on the varieties mentioned? I won’t be discussing this further with you, because this has become ridiculous
No. I am just saying that in northwest Iowa there is one ear per stalk. I thought I made that clear.
OK, what about the baby corn you see in Chinese food and salad bars?
Baby corn is unfertilized corn picked before the silk is ready for pollenation. It could be sweet corn or feild corn. There’s no advantage in using sweet corn, because the kernels are not developed.
Another question: when animals eat the feed corn, do they eat the whole cob? Or is the corn taken off the cob first? If so, what becomes of the cobs?
Yep, they eat it cob and all. You think someone’s gonna de-cob it just to throw it to a cow or pig? They don’t seem to mind, it makes something yummy to chew on.
By feed corn you seem to mean the whole cobs of corn and they eat the cobs sometimes and sometimes they leave it. Whatever remains is spread on the fields with the manure and plowed in. Ground corn kernels with added minerals is what you normaly call corn feed on a dairy farm and is fed at milking time. Your use is fine, it’s just not the most common use on a dairy farm. You normaly use only the kernels for this, because this is what to used to maximize their milk production. The farmer will adjust the feed according to what their charts on milk production indicate. You drop a scope in front of the stantion by their head. They each have a watering cup next to them that fills so long as they push their nose into it to drink. The pile of cobs left after corn is removed from a cob is composted or spread on the field to be plowed in. At least one person makes money selling corn cobs to novelty gag gift manufactures. Behold the Spencer’s electric corn cob for the outhouse. Not that I’ve ever seen an outhouse thats wired for electricity. I guess you need the Spencer’s hamster wheel generator.
The elote that you tasted is NOT used for animal feed. Most corn grown in Mexico is for human consumption.
I agree with your wife about that overly sweet corn eaten in the US. I also like my corn to taste like corn. If I want to eat sugar in that form, I’ll just have a piece of raw sugarcane.
Fodder corn is grown in fields near where I live; they harvest the whole plants and shred them, stalks, cobs, leaves, directly into the back of a massive truck. I think they make silage out of the lot.
I know that feed corn has many times the yeild as sweet corn- anyone got exact figures?
Bueller? 
Mmmmm, corn smut.