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DanD 
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Posted: 28 Jun 2016 at 11:07pm |
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Looks like we need to park the Gleaner this fall and get the corn picker out. Have about 4000 bushels of ear corn storage at home. Would make a nice check.
http://madison.craigslist.org/grd/5658544969.html
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EricPA
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Posted: 28 Jun 2016 at 11:14pm |
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DougS
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 4:35am |
Certainly he means $3.00 
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 4:54am |
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No, I am fairly sure he means $30.00. He is likely trying to market to the city folks, who pay $3.00 for something like 6 ears in a bag at the Ace Hardware or Walmart for their squirrel feeder.
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 5:21am |
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We have a rural king that sells ear corn for squirrels. Local guy grows it. Figured out he was gettin close to $50 a bushel for it. Course he had to sort it, bag it, and deliver to the store. Still pretty good.
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 6:29am |
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I sold ear corn to the big city bots at $5. per 5 gallon bucket full for several years! that was when corn was like $1.50 bu. shelled.
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DanD
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 6:52am |
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My dad actually sold a couple thousand bushels of ear corn to a county here in Wisconsin. They bag and sell it in places like Fleet Farm for the already mentioned squirrel corn. It gives jobs to mentally handicapped people there in the county. However the going rate from them was of course market price. Seems like it would be tough to get someone to drive all the way out to the farm and load a bushel into the trunk to feed squirrels. 6 or 8 ears in a bag at the store ready to go is another thing. And surely no one would buy more than one bushel. Would be a long process to sell. But hey..more power to the guy. Maybe I'll steal his idea!
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 9:07am |
Should be able to get $40 per bushel then for my non GMO. ;) 
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:13am |
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The non-GMO might bring extra if it is certified as such. I don't know if cross-pollination from another field would be an issue or not. I can tell you one thing, he's not going to sell a cribfull of ear corn on craigslist. He may sell a little here and a little there, but he'll barely make a dent in that crib.
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 10:20am |
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I was kidding. I agree he will have a tough sale.
Im thinking about selling bundles of whole corn plants for fall decorations. We are close to a good size town with subdivisions and people love that stuff.
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 11:05am |
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Indian Corn was the big thing 40 years ago. Is there any demand for that now?
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 11:38am |
 Dmpaul89 wrote:
I was kidding. I agree he will have a tough sale.
Im thinking about selling bundles of whole corn plants for fall decorations. We are close to a good size town with subdivisions and people love that stuff. |
Ask Don Bradley (aka Don(MO)) about that...he's been doing it for years making good money. Mike
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 1:41pm |
DougS wrote:
Certainly he means $3.00
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That or he's going to have an extra 400 bushels left over at harvest time
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 2:31pm |
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shucks...just pick it outta the neighbors field! LMAO (more profit)
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 3:25pm |
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Shhhhhhh. There was always the broccoli in the field when I lived in Oregon. Sweet corn was easier - the ears would fall off the truck when the truck would turn a corner. ;) We'd always follow the pea viner when I was growing up in Wisconsin.
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Posted: 29 Jun 2016 at 6:07pm |
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Posted: 30 Jun 2016 at 6:54am |
Skyhighballoon(MO) wrote:
Dmpaul89 wrote:
I was kidding. I agree he will have a tough sale.
Im thinking about selling bundles of whole corn plants for fall decorations. We are close to a good size town with subdivisions and people love that stuff. |
Ask Don Bradley (aka Don(MO)) about that...he's been doing it for years making good money. Mike
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Mike is right I have been selling corn bundles of 12 for years now and for you Na-Sayers is is a cash-cow for me. I sale them on C-list but most of them are from building two big shocks by the road, so most are line of sight sells, city people come to the farm for them year after year. Might not work for all but it's good for me!
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Posted: 30 Jun 2016 at 1:25pm |
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I think Don nailed the answer. It's the citiots. "Let's go to the farm and get some fresh corn. It's worth it". Don can smile and wave all the way to the bank. I'm with you Don. If the market is there then sell sell sell.
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Posted: 30 Jun 2016 at 1:32pm |
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Don, are you selling regular yellow corn or actual "ornamental" corn like indian corn? My gears are turning now... the grain price outlook for fall is bleak.
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Posted: 30 Jun 2016 at 2:40pm |
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What is a bushel anyway ? Don't corn come in a mason jar? I think it only comes in Quarts!! HaHa just kidding I think I saw a bushel once.
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Posted: 30 Jun 2016 at 2:47pm |
Dmpaul89 wrote:
Don, are you selling regular yellow corn or actual "ornamental" corn like indian corn? My gears are turning now... the grain price outlook for fall is bleak. |
Plain old yellow corn. I tell them it's not been sprayed but I run the cultivator over it to get the weeds, then ask if the one's you get at your big box store are spray free and get I'll take your good one's because they will be in the house. They load them in boats,pick-ups, even cars. lmao
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