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I was in the Hickory Creek Walmart this morning for a can of Deep Woods Off and noticed their corn was 20 cents an ear.
Corn on the Cob Anyone?
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creekbend
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Corn in the produce section at the nearest Walmart is 3 ears for a dollar.
dooleysm
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I don't know that we'll get any sweet corn worth eating in Indiana this year. Bad drought for us. We've had a 1/2" in June, normal is in the 6-8 range. The best corn around looks bad. Lots of brown fields, just as it's all coming into pollination. Record temps this week, we had 106 yesterday. My garden is in bad shape all around.
I just seeded our second sweet corn crop a week ago I put the first one in March 25 and though its not a big garden we still got 200+ lbs out of $27 worth of seed. Dont know what that works out to with water costs and fuel etc and all but we will have plenty of sweet corn this winter that will be nice.
JDgreen227
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Local Meijers here is selling bicolor sweet corn for 19 cents an ear.
Ouch by my math using that market price JD if my ears were 8oz that 200 lbs I harvested would be $76 @ .19 x 400 ears then figure in cost of operations I probably didn't save much $ but it is still a fun hobby!
Now later this year when I am one of the only ones at the farmers market with super sweet hybrid corn things will be different good corn will sell for 2-3 for a dollar.
Oh and we are waaay low on moisture way low also our dryland field corn is just now 2' tall it will probably not make corn if we dont get a few inches here soon. Dont have any sweet corn nearby to know how its doing but probably ok if its irrigated just my guess? (over 110 here all last week till now sucks)
OP
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I was in one Walmart this morning that had corn for 20 cents an ear. I was also in a Kroger's that had 6 for a dollar. Kroger's also had corn with most of the shucks & silk removed (not all) then wrapped in clear plastic that was 3 for $1.09.:laughing:
JDgreen227
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Car Doc, I tried growing sweet corn at home for one year and what I harvested tasted much better than what you could buy at a store but you are correct if one figures out the time and expense of growing your own it is costly. I for one do not like sweet corn much so I rarely buy it.