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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Corn Undressing
  • Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 09:14:56 -0500


>
>BTW - if every ear that was poked was ripe, you'd never be left with any
>"ruined" ears anyway.
>
>Jess
>Cincy


Sorry, that's not true. Most consumers who strip ears, poke kernels and take
bites out of the ear (unbelievable!) leave those ears and pack up unmolested
ears. They don't wanna buy those ears! In all fairness, the customer should
buy those ears if they buy any. And, yes, sweet corn is not a high margin
crop. If each customer who buys a dozen strips one and leaves it behind,
most of that margin is stripped as well. Of course the grower has to do
something about it.

Bill Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
Univ of Illinois - St Charles Hort Research Center





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