Bev, beware of what you read on corn sites that are written by andThat's a good point.
for agribusiness. They know as much about raising organic corn as
the person who oils the giant weaving machinery knows about knitting.
Heritage OP corn had been selected for centuries when mild, slow
acting, organic fertilizer was all that was available. New hybrids
and sweetcorn hybrids are bred specifically for concentrated
inorganic salts, they don't respond so well in organic plantings.
Likewise, organic fertilizer on old OP corn makes it grow spindly and
weak.
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