But candy corn lives forever. And man, is half the world pissed about that. My editor, Cassie, is part of that half. “It tastes and feels like wax,” she tells me. She’s not alone.
Iowa-based MazePlay designs Richardson's maze, using sterile corn, which doesn't fertilize, so it's plowed under at the end of the season and replanted from seeds at the start of a new one.
Brian Leake, a Bayer spokesman, said the company has been developing short corn for more than 20 years. Other companies such as Stine Seed and Corteva also have been working for a decade or longer ...
Oh, and steers and octopuses and a moose. Cows and quilts and championship-winning sports teams. "Star Wars" and "Peanuts." What do they all have in common? Corn. They're just some of the many designs ...
BUT IN THE FUTURE, THAT TALL CORN, WHILE IT MIGHT NOT BE AS TALL. KCCI ZANE SATRE TALKED WITH THE FOLKS AT STINE SEED IN DALLAS COUNTY ABOUT WHY THAT’S HAPPENING. MOST IOWANS ARE USED TO SEEING ...