mutant corn and the onset of wilt

it's been a couple of days since i visited farmer brown's soybean field and things have taken a turn for the so-so...parts of the field have started to wilt badly and the leaves on other plants are beginning to curl up ( transpiration again...only i'm not watering this field )...some of the volunteer corn is trying its best to produce ears ( third photo ) but others are obviously mutated well away from the corn we all know in fields...spiky..no flowers...no tassels...no ears...just an approximation of nature...compare that with the heirloom hopi blue on campus and you'll see why i am not a big fan of industrial seed companies relying instead on a number of small suppliers and what i can find in seed banks and what the usda has that i can use...one generation of industrial feedstock and then mutant city...makes me wonder where we're headed. __________________________________________________________ 7-18-2012 5:15 a.m.--- quite a bit of traspiration from somewhere else ( illinois and iowa, i'm guessing ) fell as rain here last night whicjh means; 1) there will be some relief of the water stress in the above soybeans ( and the attendant industrial crops around the area ) and, 2) i don't have to go to campus to water tonight after work...the coverage of the rain wsa nothing like statewide...a swathe of the northern tier of counties...and the radar still shows a dearth of precipitation west of here back through the corn belt...we've had about thirty percent of our normal rain so far and this isn't anything like a broken drought