Corn Progress Update Delivered by Farmer Steve Adler

Not A Cornfield farmer Steve Adler took a few moments away from his fieldwork yesterday to offer Not A Cornfield blog readers the following update:

“We’re at about Day 60,” Adler said, “and the corn’s still growing. Worms are being controlled by organic methods. We have 25% tasseling in the field. We’re starting to show silking on the South side [of the project site], which means we actually have corn cobs growing. Fertilizing is being added at this time, and we still look to begin the Harvest at the end of October.

“The weather’s good,” Adler continued. “The rain was a godsend. It helps wash accumulated salt out of the soil. Corn loves rain.”

Adler was then asked how the corn crop was progressing compared to his expectations back when the art project started, before the ground was furrowed and the first seeds were planted.

“The corn is much more advanced than what I’d guessed for sixty days down the road,” the farmer said. “The weather must have been just right. I didn’t expect it to [average] seven feet tall after sixty days. I’ve seen other field corn elsewhere at the same age that has not reached mature height.”