Cool, thanks for the info. This year is my first corn-effort. I have two or three plants in a corn-beans-squash plot, and then I have some corn plants that grew from the bird feeder in another location.
That corn under the feeder could be Field Corn and I think another name for it is Dent Corn and I would not recommend using that to pollinate as your eating corn could be tough and tasteless. It would be better to snip a few tassels of your eating corn and pollinate with that and do it on 3 different days a couple of days apart. My 5 rows are 12’ long with 2 plants per hill 1’ apart and I may get 2 ears per plant for a total of 120 ears of good eating sweet corn...