Is it corn?

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. American General and President. 1890-1969.

This is a field of barley, recently combined, the grain carted off and the straw gathered into large bales. In my native Yorkshire cereals such as barley, wheat and oats were collectively known as corn. My father, a Canadian by birth, could never accept this, as to him, and other North Americans, corn was maize. We here in the UK call maize maize when it is growing in the fields but corn when in a tin or served on the cob. Ah, the rich joys of complex language! Oh, and by the way, we plough with a plough, whereas North americans seem to plow with a plow.