The Dispatch / The Rock Island Argus: Corn stalk with 27 ears puzzles farmers in Iowa MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) — North Iowa farmers are puzzled by a curiously bountiful corn stalk growing in front of a restaurant in Mason City. The more than 5-foot-tall plant in front of the Wild Horse ... Now is the time to evaluate fields for any stalk or ear rot symptoms, according to Darcy Telenko, Purdue field crops pathologist, and Dan Quinn, Purdue corn specialist.

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Garden Talk: What you can do to your sweet corn for bigger ears Corn yield results not from the number of plants in a field but rather the number of ears — photocopied ears of sufficient length and girth. Gaps in a stand and plants without ears contribute nothing ... IFLScience: Whose Ears Look Like That?! Why We Call Corn Cobs “Ears”