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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

Corn on the cob and the stuff you get in the can is sweet corn. The 
stuff they feed to cows and make ethanol from is field (dent) corn. Dent 
corn is also used for cornmeal, so a homesteader is likely to be growing 
either or both types.

Lynn Wigglesworth

bob ford wrote:
> So, the corn I get out of a can, from the store; is the same corn ,from the 
> same fields, as the "corn-on-the-cob" I buy at the store?  And, essentially 
> would be the same corn James and Rob grow on their farms?  Just picked and 
> processed differently?   ..............bobford
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 10/19/08, Don Bowen  wrote:
> 
>> From: Don Bowen 
>> Subject: RE: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
>> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 4:45 PM
>>> you are strictly taling 'feed corn'?  I'm a
>> bit confused.  I know very
>>> little about this subject ....bobford
>> In our industrial agriculture corn is a "feed"
>> stock for all sorts of
>> things.  It is obviously feed for all Confinement Feeding
>> Operations.  Most
>> of the animal products sold in the US are feed corn is
>> various forms.  We
>> are feed corn in all sorts of things, HFC is in almost
>> everything we eat now
>> days in addition to all sorts of other corn based
>> ingredients.  It is also a
>> feed stock for ethanol plants.
>>
>> All this corn is bought and sold as a commodity, a bushel
>> of corn is a
>> bushel of corn no matter where it is produced, the only
>> important
>> consideration is the moisture content.  GMO corn
>> complicates the issue but
>> only is corn for human consumption but it is so completely
>> mixed now that
>> even we humans are eating a lot of GMO corn.
>>
>> We are truly "children of the corn."
>>
>> Don Bowen  KI6DIU
>> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
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