[Haiku Guy]

I used to put corn cobs and the shucked leaves into the compost pile. No more. You can put these modern shucked corn leaves into a compost pile and pull them out two years later, and they look just the same. I don’t know what they’ve done to them, but they just don’t biodegrade anymore. All of my waste from corn on the cob goes out in the garbage, now.

[SolidRedState]

I used to put corn cobs and the shucked leaves into the compost pile. No more. You can put these modern shucked corn leaves into a compost pile and pull them out two years later, and they look just the same. I don’t know what they’ve done to them, but they just don’t biodegrade anymore. All of my waste from corn on the cob goes out in the garbage, now.

You can't be serious. Every acre around me for as far as the eye can see is planted to herbicide resistant corn in the summer and in the fall the shucks and leaves blow around and get stuck in my shrubs etc and I collect them and they decompose as they always have.
Your sweet corn leaves are just a little greener when you stuff them in the pile. Let them fry a while in the sun before you compost. And most likely, your sweet corn wasn't herbicide resistant anyway.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

You can put these modern shucked corn leaves into a compost pile and pull them out two years later, and they look just the same. I don’t know what they’ve done to them, but they just don’t biodegrade anymore. All of my waste from corn on the cob goes out in the garbage, now.

Hmmmmm, this is the first I've heard of this phenomenon. Perhaps this is why the ethanol producers are fermenting corn cobs rather than corn seed. It always sounded a bit uneconomical to use corn cobs for ethanol production. However, if it is to dispose of the persistent cob, it has value.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

You can put these modern shucked corn leaves into a compost pile and pull them out two years later, and they look just the same.

Sounds like something right out of X-Files.