Host Richard Hentschel discusses the 2016 farm crops with Russ Higgins. Russ details more on how and when pollination occurs with field corn. Corn has both male and female flowers, but not together. The tassels (male flowers) appear on the top of the corn plant with the female flowers in the ear and pollination takes place by a pollen grain traveling down the silk into the ear. Corn is wind pollinated