Mostly Dead

I think I may have posted about this before, but I can't remember, and even if I have, it still boggles my mind, so we will post about it again.

This is what the corn looks like right now:

It's mostly dead.

But there it sits.

The farmer waits until it's very dead before harvesting it. It's feed corn, as in, human's don't eat this kind. They harvest it when it's dead and grind it all up until animal feed.

It still boggles my mind that we let it sit there until it's dead though. Seems counter intuitive.