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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

I knew that (about sweet corn); I had just forgotteen; thanks Lynn.  I 
remember as a child, picking corn by hand and throwing it into a slow moving 
trailer. 

 Every year at harvest time, we get 'sweet corn' , here in phoenix, brought 
up fresh in trucks froma farm in central Arizona.  When my MIL was alive, a 
couple of times we drove up to near Camp Verde and bought fresh sweet corn 
from a produce stand right next to the cornfield. 

I have never seen a tractor that shells corn as it picks the corn.  Maybe I 
can find a video on youtube.  What do they do with the cob?   bobford 


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-- On Sun, 10/19/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] Fall Happenings
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, October 19, 2008, 5:21 PM
> 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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