WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — Taking a late-summer country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone , snaking between 12-foot-tall green, leafy walls that seem to block out nearly everything other than the sun and an occasional water tower.
The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows.
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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.
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Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) -
Cameron Sorgenfrey holds an ear of corn from a short corn stalk in his field, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) -
A farmer empties corn in storage bins on a farm, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) -
Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a short corn stalk next to one of his fields, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024, in Wyoming, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)
