JHLewis published Prepared to be a-maized by golden sweetcorn

​You've seen the Nottinghamshire maize crop shooting past head height this summer and are looking forward to feasting this autumn on cob after golden, butter-soaked cob.Prepare to be disappointed. The vast majority of the locally-grown maize will yield corn that ends up not in your vegetable rack, but in cowpats."Not a lot will end up as corn on the cob," says Nottinghamshire farmers' spokeswoman Alison Pratt, of East Midlands NFU. "Most of it is grown for silage and for anaerobic...