Farmer Steve Adler's Latest Corn Update

Every now and then, the Not A Cornfield Blog checks in with Farmer Steve Adler, the art project's chief seed breeder and agronomist, for an update.

From Wednesday, November 2, here's the collected latest words from Farmer Steve:

"We’re in the drying phases of the corn. The corn is starting to harden up and looking good. The rain that we had two weeks ago was not good for us -- it put a lot of moisture up in the corn, so it’s going to take a lot longer to dry down because the temperstaures aren’t quite hot enough in October and November.

"Other than that, hey, twelve-foot corn in downtown L.A. is so amazing, I can hardly believe it. But since it’s there, it just goes to show that anything is possible.

"[The site has] worms like crazy out there now. "This is how corn crops used to be, before the 1940s. There were no pesticides. The pesticides came around due to the research from the War….because all pesticides are nerve agents.

“It’s done growing. The corn [ears] itself is still growing. The corn plant, that’s as far as it will go, once it flowered out, it won’t grow any taller. Actually, we’re starting to get two ears, where we usually only get one.”