why do farmers dry out their corn fields?

Why are they drying out the corn in the corn fields?

it seems like a waste of food.  it could feed a lot of hungry chess players

This variant is called Farmer's Chess.

Is this a blonde joke?

why is it called Farmer's Chess

my friend and i were driving through an agricultural area where it was all farm land

and there were fields of corn all being dried up.  and it wasn't being harvested

i don't understand why he corn was not harvest and the corn stalks were left to dry out in the fields.

it is obvious.  the pawns in the files are the corn in the rows and the major piece is the farmer's harvester.

if the king is the farmer's harvester then where is the farmer?  Is he in the barn? 

Also, what is the object of the game ?  Are you trying to use your harvester (king) to harvest (capture) the corn (pawns) ?

1) When you say "corn", I assume you mean maize.

2) As with most grasses, the seeds of maize keep developing even after the stalks have dried out and look dead.  If you're selling unshucked ears, you have to harvest while it's green, because that's more appealing in the supermarket.  But if you're growing for seed, or for popcorn, or for cornmeal or starch or syrup or oil, you can stop watering at the end of the season and the crop will be just fine.

Example of harvesting maize after the stalks are dry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM8mV2bKOZM

i grow corn yearly in my little yard because i love the look of growing corn.

...maize is from mexico...

...corn is from the america...

...the same item but labelled differently depending on which mercado you were purchasing it in...

Why do you assume that she meant maize when she said corn?

i was referring to a poster above me who first spoke  of maize.

maize in the north american sense was an evolutionary plant from an early grass in meso-america.

in rome as in olde england, corn referred to grains of all types and not to the common corn we north americans think of when we think of corn.

nero wolfe liked corn cooked in an oven at 450 degrees for about 40 minutes if baked in the husk and cooked the same day as it was cut.  he also did not wish to find dynamite in the box when delivered to his brownstone at west thirty-fifth street ( on that day, fearing dynamite, he sadly put the box of corn in water and thus  made it inedible ( to his standards ).

i like eating corn that has been roasted on the stove top or in the oven.

i am not a big fan of boiled corn which is very common in the USA

what way do you GMs like corn?

I like my corn without trolls.

Why did the chicken cross the dried out cornfield?

Carlsen probably prefers it very slowly roasted on a spit.

Tal probably gave his opponent most of the grains, and then let him choke on the last 3.

The king is a farmer and the pawns are his daughters.

i like eating corn on the cob with lots of melted butter.

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