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The local Amish produce stand up the road has a sign that, after reading, would make you feel like an idiot to complain about prices. Some people will never understand how much work it takes to grow crops
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More trivia...Know how to tell the difference??? The inside of the cob on "Cow" corn is brownish red. Sweet corn is yellow....
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I actually prefer the pure yellow sweet corn if, and when I can buy it, over the butter and sugar yellow and white hybrids. I grew up eating the yellow sweet corn, but when the hybrids came out, farms quit planting the yellow sweet corn for the most part, and switched over to the butter and sugar. I've tried the white corn, but wasn't impressed with it at all.
You almost never find yellow sweet corn in grocery store anymore. Sometimes you run across it at roadside stands, or in the farmers markets. I think it's still sweeter than the hybrids, but that's just my opinion............ Hard to believe that corn that was $1-$2 a dozen within a year or two is at $6 a dozen, and higher now............... |
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I pay it just because Farmers are hurting too right now, so why not show a little support!
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I just picked up some corn from the first stand I've seen this year. $7 a dozen and I didn't complain. Usually the first is at a premium price and by the end of the season it is lower. Still can't beat the taste of freshly picked sweet corn.
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Sweet Corn Charlies is anywhere from $8 to $11 a dozen. Expensive, but good!
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I always show support to my local farmers (market). The sellers from Thursday's Farmers Market had the small kernel augmented supersweet bicolor at $7/doz. Not for me, I like the larger kernels and, like Brad, yellow. My neighbor finally started picking his crop and was selling for $5/doz. Still bicolor, but at least the larger kernel. Oh, and it's tasty too.
Th Olathe is more of a local corn to CO and like Mirai is a tender kernel and requires hand picking to keep "bruising" down to a minimum. As far as "field"/"feed"/"dent" corn goes, you can eat it, you just have to pick it early enough. My cousins grow it for their dairy cows though. And summers on the farm is hard work. The Amish create their own hardships, due to their traditions.
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A good day- had my first sweet corn this summer!
I would have bought it without regard to pricing. However it was $3 for a half dozen- a single cup of coffee at the corner restaurant costs me that much. Example of inflation: in 1956 my dad let me use one acre to raise sweet corn to sell. Sold a lot of it at 25 cents/dozen and got down to 15 cents near the end of it. Example of different times: I never even had to consider a lock on the cashbox while I was at school.
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$5.00 a bakers dozen here, just have to watch who you get it from. A few of the farms are starting to use waste sludge to fertilize the fields. Not sure if that is good or not.
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Just got some yesterday.40¢ each it was very good for early in season.
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This makes me wonder if the commercial market (ie chain stores) have driven the farmers to use a "tougher" variety just to enable automated harvesting and to survive the transportation? I always think strawberries in the grocery store are some variety designed to be tough and last on the shelf as opposed to taste good! Same with tomatoes. Last edited by Shiny; 07-28-2020 at 11:44 AM. Reason: clarify |
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First local ears I bought this year. $4 a dozen. Should go down to $3 in a few weeks. Ears still kind of small. I hope they taste good!
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Bought some fresh from a produce stand a couple weeks ago and was 12 for 12.-. Yakima corn was a bit overripe.
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Wow! Here in Winneconne Wisconsin, it’s $6/dozen, or 75 cents per ear. I guess we’re better off than 12 for 12!
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I just bought a dozen from none such farm on my way home. $7.80 a dozen and was effing awesome... ate 4 ears with a pork chop, some broccoli, and a little cucumber salad from the garden.
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My local guy has big fat ears of sweet jersey corn! .75 per or $6 dozen.
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