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Usually at this time of year their are huge piles of the stuff, but I've only seen small displays with perhaps 100 ears in them.
I think the price has gone up as well. In the height of summer one can get five ears for a dollar, now it is more like two or three.
Since most of the US food supply depends upon corn one way or the other the implications will be interesting. Pigs, cows and chickens are all fed corn. Most sweetened products contain high fructose corn syrup. Even farmed fish like catfish is fed a corn-based feed.
Milk and diary products have just gone up in price and the excuse is the higher cost of feed for the cows... Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
When I was a kid growing up in the countryside east of Columbus, Ohio, sweet corn was commonly rotated in after some years of soybeans ... because we were one country over from a city of half a million. But its not there anymore ... outer suburban sprawl ate the countryside.
But sweet corn is more labor intensive, and if regular corn is bringing in high prices, farmers'll switch. I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
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