I love this time of year for farm fresh produce. Independence has a great farmer's market on the square on Saturdays. The homegrown tomatoes are in season including heirlooms. Blackberries, peaches, sweet onions, and this week the corn has started rolling in. Got a dozen ears for $7, which is maybe a little higher than you'd get from a truck stand out in the country, but this is five minutes from my house, and I like helping the local farmers out. I shuck em, clean em cryovac in packs of 4 and put them in the freezer for fall. Nothing better than a real ear of sweet corn in November! I've heard of Candy Corn in Nebraska. Who has the best tasting corn? The ears all seem to be healthy and the corn well developed. We've had plenty of rain this year I think, so the crops must be good at least here in Mid America.
My favorites are Peaches and Cream or just the white sweet corn. I've had the Kandy Korn Hybrid and it's good but to me not a lot different than plain old yellow corn.
WE were getting a lot of good stuff from the Amish who would set up a stand on Parvin Road just east of Chouteau Trafficway. They weren't around during covid but they are back. My wife got some giant maters the size of hedge apples last Friday I was suspicious as the skin was thick but damn were they delicious. [Reply]
Originally Posted by srvy:
My favorites are Peaches and Cream or just the white sweet corn. I've had the Kandy Korn Hybrid and it's good but to me not a lot different than plain old yellow corn.
WE were getting a lot of good stuff from the Amish who would set up a stand on Parvin Road just east of Chouteau Trafficway. They weren't around during covid but they are back. My wife got some giant maters the size of hedge apples last Friday I was suspicious as the skin was thick but damn were they delicious.
Parvin near Chouteau? I should go up there next Sat and check it out. [Reply]
A couple of years ago I went to a funeral in Jewell, KS about this time of year. It was super hot, 100 plus across north central Kansas. On the way home I stopped at Silver Lake, just outside Topeka and bought a bunch of corn from a farm stand. The ears were huge. When I got them home, they all had weird worms in the top tassle. I just cut the tops off of them, and the rest of the ears seemed to be fine. Only time I've ever seen that when buying corn. [Reply]
Originally Posted by gblowfish:
Parvin near Chouteau? I should go up there next Sat and check it out.
They are there on Friday only that I know of. Get there early because they sell out fast.
They setup in a little Church parking lot north of Northland Rehabilitation. I think the church is called Open Door Baptist if I remember right. [Reply]
NK yellow and white corn was the best. Not sure of the brand it is sold by anymore. Wife used to work for Novartis/NK/Golden Harvest/whatever the F it is now.
Soils also have a lot to do with it. Iowa corn is better than S. Missouri corn or Florida corn. The land is just better. [Reply]
Dad plants some under his pivot. It’s pretty good shit. He used to get a public variety out of Indiana that was really good, but it wasn’t Roundup Ready (million year old conventional seed). Too hard to manage independent of the rest of the field so he got some GMO stuff.
Candy Corn sucks.
Originally Posted by gblowfish:
A couple of years ago I went to a funeral in Jewell, KS about this time of year. It was super hot, 100 plus across north central Kansas. On the way home I stopped at Silver Lake, just outside Topeka and bought a bunch of corn from a farm stand. The ears were huge. When I got them home, they all had weird worms in the top tassle. I just cut the tops off of them, and the rest of the ears seemed to be fine. Only time I've ever seen that when buying corn.
Those are corn ear worm or more recently Western Bean Cutworm. If you cut off the affected part of the ear, it’s fine. Smut on the other hand has to go.
Typically they’ve all got it. There is a Gene that can be spliced Mir-17 (IIRC) that kills them when they bite the husk. If you remember a few years ago China made a big deal of it and rejected some barges that led to a class action lawsuit against Syngenta, that’s the one. It’s fine. China gave no fucks about it, they were just out to wreck the corn market so they could buy it cheaper, which they did. In fact, those rejected barges they sent to Hong Kong, who bought them for pennies, and sold it back to the Chinese.
But that’s why your corn is $7. They throw those out. Ear worms (without the gene which is more available all the time) are very common. But I’m sure they throw those out because a few fools (obviously not you) freak out ZOMG WORM IM NEVER BUYING THERE AGAIN hits Facebook and soccer moms don’t buy your stuff.
Originally Posted by displacedinMN:
NK yellow and white corn was the best. Not sure of the brand it is sold by anymore. Wife used to work for Novartis/NK/Golden Harvest/whatever the F it is now.
Soils also have a lot to do with it. Iowa corn is better than S. Missouri corn or Florida corn. The land is just better.
No question the soils are better. But it’s unlikely they’re bad enough to not support a sweet corn plant. More likely it’s nutrient availability or weather during pollination and grainfill. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Buehler445:
Dad plants some under his pivot. It’s pretty good shit. He used to get a public variety out of Indiana that was really good, but it wasn’t Roundup Ready (million year old conventional seed). Too hard to manage independent of the rest of the field so he got some GMO stuff.
Candy Corn sucks.
Those are corn ear worm or more recently Western Bean Cutworm. If you cut off the affected part of the ear, it’s fine. Smut on the other hand has to go.
Typically they’ve all got it. There is a Gene that can be spliced Mir-17 (IIRC) that kills them when they bite the husk. If you remember a few years ago China made a big deal of it and rejected some barges that led to a class action lawsuit against Syngenta, that’s the one. It’s fine. China gave no fucks about it, they were just out to wreck the corn market so they could buy it cheaper, which they did. In fact, those rejected barges they sent to Hong Kong, who bought them for pennies, and sold it back to the Chinese.
But that’s why your corn is $7. They throw those out. Ear worms (without the gene which is more available all the time) are very common. But I’m sure they throw those out because a few fools (obviously not you) freak out ZOMG WORM IM NEVER BUYING THERE AGAIN hits Facebook and soccer moms don’t buy your stuff.
No question the soils are better. But it’s unlikely they’re bad enough to not support a sweet corn plant. More likely it’s nutrient availability or weather during pollination and grainfill.
