I guess you nailed why you guys up there grow tall stalk corn and down here we grow short stalk corn. Not much silage needed here as compared to you guys getting "wintered in" up there so our stalks are like 4-5' tall.
Down here the name of the game is to minimize the loss, aka stalks and leaves....takes fertilizer to grow and gets in the way after the harvest. After combining, the stalks are usually rolled into hay bales and usually sold. Good market in a dry year but this year hay is everywhere so they might just brush hog them and fold them back into the soil for humus.
It's obvious that the seed is genetic as each stalks is the same height, each has 2 ears, and they are in the same place on the stalk.....looks like solders lined up for a parade.
On genetic engineering and agriculture, I think it's great and helps us to feed ourselves with all the pressures ag. has these days. I don't know why there are so many boo birds out there. Maybe one day when their plate is empty they might change their minds.
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