I grew up in corn country and even worked for the DeKalb Agricultural Association, long before they were purchase by Monsanto. The best perk of that job was that employees got to buy as many cartons of eggs as they could use at the then discounted price of 25 cents a dozen. When I took an undergraduate biology class at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, the whole semester was devoted to corn genetics. Ackkk! I wanted to disect a frog!
Imagine my surprise when I learned that the DeKalb Alumni Association is not a group of NIU grads, but rather of former employees of "the AG" and if you never drove through the midwest and noticed the little flying ears of corn logos posted along just about every country road, here's a reproduction:
I missed the History Channel's recent feature on corn, but Discover has a great page on this versatile vegetable in their How Stuff Works series:
I love that photo. Speaking of great photos, this page on hydroponically grown corn has some too:
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