Just like anything living, corn also has oddities in its lineage.  This corn ear decided to grow on the top of the stalk, in place of one of the tassels.

Corn is food for deer, but not like food for you and I.  Deer love to eat the silk.  They will eat the kernels too, but yummm, they LOVE the silk!

The love to eat the silk just as the little kernels are forming, of course, that kills the ear.  This ear has withered on the stalk from Deer munching silk.

This is the new variety of corn Terry grew this year.