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.
Cameron Sorgenfrey holds a tall corn stalk next to a short corn stalk along one of his fields Sept. 16 in Wyoming, Iowa.
The corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows.
