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‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields steamrolled by a changing climate
The storm killed four people and caused $11 billion in damage, with the greatest destruction in a wide strip of eastern Iowa, where winds exceeded 100 mph. In cities such as Cedar Rapids, the wind toppled thousands of trees but the damage to a corn crop only weeks from harvest was especially stunning.
‘Short corn’ could take over the Midwest’s cornfields
Small-stature corn is being tested in the Midwest in hopes of offering farmers a variety that can withstand powerful, climate-driven windstorms.
‘Short corn’ could replace fields hit by climate change
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.
Short corn could replace towering 12-foot stalks as farmers adjust to changing climate
Short corn offers farmers a variety that can withstand powerful windstorms that could become more frequent due to climate change. (AP video by Nicholas Ingram)
Towering cornstalks in Iowa could soon be replaced by newly developed 'short corn'
WYOMING, Iowa — 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.
‘Short corn’ could replace the towering cornfields that have been hit by changing climate
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.
Scientists develop climate-resistant ‘short corn’ with larger yields
"As you drive across the Midwest, maybe in the next seven, eight, 10 years, you're going to see a lot of this out there," said Cameron Sorgenfrey, an eastern Iowa farmer
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