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- From: "Wyatt Jones" <wyatt_jones AT netzero.com>
- To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Market-farming] Untreated Seed Corn sources
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 17:35:36 -0400
Anybody know good sources of
untreated seed corn? I've tried a couple of places that said they could as
long as I ordered early enough but both kept sending me treated even though
I ordered back in the middle of December. I'd send it back and they would
send me more treated until they told me it was too late to get it and I wasn't
happy about it. I ended up having to order Polka, an early synergistic
corn, from Johnny's and though its good the ears aren't the huge nice
package of the late corn people expect and most won't try it though its better
than everybody else's around here for flavor. The ones that have tried it
say its the best around but getting them to try it is difficult. I sell a
lot in Yellow springs, a liberal college town near here as the other
people selling corn spray with chemicals and I don't as I'm transitioning the
land to organic but the country market is a whole different story.
Fingerling potatoes same story, sell out in Yellow Springs and sell none in the
country although some have bought my Rose Finns when their kids
thought they were cool because they thought the potatoes looked like little
monsters LOL. Hey as long as I don't have to compromise my principles
I'll take a sale any way I can. Johnny's has Montauk sweet corn but its
extremely expensive!! I'm looking for synergistic or triplesweet corn both white
and bicolor. I ordered Avalon and Serendipity, good corn but doesn't do me
any good unless I can get a reliable untreated source. One with
an organic treatment like Johnny's Natural II is even better but I'm not
pushing my luck. I got Polka treated with that and it came up in pretty
cool soil. I'll probably order Polka again as it is an excellent 67 day
corn, very good, about as sweet as one would want and keeps very
well but I'd like to use it only for the early season as I'd really
like to get one with a more attractive package as its hard enough competing with
an established chemical farmer who everybody has been buying from for
the last 40 years even if his corn isn't as tasty. Luckily he only sells
sweet corn so I'm getting the other business
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[Market-farming] Untreated Seed Corn sources,
Wyatt Jones, 08/09/2009
- Re: [Market-farming] Untreated Seed Corn sources, Road's End Farm, 08/09/2009
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- Re: [Market-farming] Untreated Seed Corn sources, sunnfarm, 08/10/2009
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