Re: How do I change the y-axis on an Excel chart from numbers towords. This will plot everything as zero values, since they are all text. You can fake it using one of these approaches: http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/Y_CategoryAxis.html. http://peltiertech.com/Excel/Charts/DotPlot.html. - Jon.
First you must keep in mind that all ears of corn have an even number of rows, never an odd number. All average ears have between 12 and 20 rows. Still, it's difficult to tell at a glance whether an ear has 14, 16, 18, or 20 rows.
Most all of the fields used for hybrid seed corn are planted in the same way. Most are planted with the pattern of one row of. male then four rows of female followed by another row of male then four female. The entire field is planted in this pattern. Corn detasselers remove all tassels from the female rows.