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[Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

It's called a combine. There are different 'heads' for harvesting corn 
or small grains. It grinds the stalk and cob and throws it back on the 
field.

Lynn Wigglesworth

bob ford wrote:
> 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 
> 
> 
> -
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- On Sun, 10/19/08, Lynn Wigglesworth  wrote:
> 
>> From: Lynn Wigglesworth 
>> 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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