John added: “Sweet corn puts all its energy into making the corn taste good. The grain corn makes sure the stalks will stand right.” John constructs the corn maze with a different pattern ...

Many of us will go to a corn maze this fall. In fact, WCCO's morning team already spent time at one at the Sever's Fall Festival in Shakopee. It had them wondering, how do they even make corn mazes?

One to two tons of corn stover (stalks, leaves, husks) grow to an acre. Only a small percentage is good for silage. The rest rots, making a national waste of 100 to 150 million tons of good ...