'Short corn' could replace fields blasted by changing climate

WYOMING, Iowa (AP) — 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.The skyscraper-like corn is a part of rural America as much as cavernous red barns and placid cows. SNAP benefits, eligibility requirements expanding in New MexicoBut soon, that towering corn might become a miniature of its former sel