“The reality is, we don’t really care if the corn is short or tall, but we have found as we push genetics to their highest potential, and as we yield-screen brand-new genetics every ...

Taking a country drive in the Midwest means venturing into the corn zone, filled with 12-foot-tall leafy walls, but soon, that corn might become quite a bit shorter.

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. "As you drive across the ...