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.
The theory behind narrow row corn production is that yields of any crop will be maximized when plants are uniformly distributed across the field. To achieve this, the spacing between all plants between and within the rows must be equal. For an equidistant plant spacing with 30,000 plants per acre, both the row spacing and distance between plants within the row would be 17.4 inches. In a 15-inch row system, plants would be 13.9 inches apart in the rows.