‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into , snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows. But soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former self, replaced by stalks only half as tall as the green giants that have dominated fields for so long./ “As you drive across the Midwest, maybe in the next seven, eight, 10 years, you're going to see a lot of this out ...
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