Tall Order for Short Corn: The Latest On Short-Stature Hybrids Compact corn hybrids appear to take winds 50 mph in stride with little greensnap or lodging resulting. However, yield performance ...

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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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A single stalk of corn is growing in front of a home — in the concrete — at the 5700 block of W. Silver Valley Drive near Dunham Park in western Sioux Falls.

Short plants also could be susceptible to a problem called lodging, when the corn tilts over after something like a heavy rain and then grows along the ground, Kelley said.