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.
In fact, a ratio of about 0.9 ears per plant over a whole acre would not be unusual. The 0.1 loss of ears/plant is referred to as barrenness, and it is a measure of how tolerant a given variety of corn is to high density environments. The greater the barrenness the less tolerant to high density a cultivar would be.