I am NOT an expert, but we have grown corn for grinding several years. I let the entire corn stalk go dry before pulling the ears, mostly because I was too busy before then. We did have some worm damage, but never found more than an inch or two (or a “tunnel” of several rows gone), which was easy enough to work around when pulling the kernels off. We did pull some once the husks turned brown, shucked them, and left it on wire shelves to dry thoroughly. I can’t tell a difference between the two methods in the end result!
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