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Topic: Ear Corn

Posted By: David Maddux
Subject: Ear Corn
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2010 at 7:35am

Does anyone know the going price for ear corn? We had some replanting done, the old did not get tore out good and we had corn come up everywhere. A lot of corn down. I picked up several bushel yesterday and planning to go back today. Dave.

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Posted By: Justin(IN)
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2010 at 7:56am

Sold mine @ market value (70 lbs of ear corn = 1 bushel).

Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2010 at 8:07am

David - I picked a load for my farming partner a few years ago for food plots and charged him the market rate at 70/lbs a bu as Justin points out. Didn't charge a premium as we are friends and the picking was fun. Market rate is the minimum. On the other extreme farm stores sell bags of a dozen ears for $5 retail as squirrel corn. If you are hand picking up the corn from a farmer's field for your own usage, I'd think at most $1 bu over market would be very fair. Don't discount the manual labor you are supplying to pick up the corn. If it's an open field w/o fences and the farmer doesn't have livestock (cattle or pigs) to turn out in it to clean it up for feed, then corn is worthless lying on the ground given the effort and cost to pick it up. It only has value after you have picked it by hand.

Put you zip in here to find daily grain market rates at elevators in your part of the MO:

http://dtn.mocorn.org/index.cfm?show=31&mid=15 - http://dtn.mocorn.org/index.cfm?show=31&mid=15

Mike

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1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex
1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330
1969 180 gas
1965 D17 S-IV gas
1963 D17 S-III gas
1956 WD45 gas NF PS
1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin
303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers

Posted By: John (C-IL)
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2010 at 5:51pm

Yep, what the other guys said, cash market price for a 70 pound bushel. There is a niche market for it among cattle feeders but you would need several thousand bushel to make it worthwhile. I guess you could set up a roadside stand and offer a dozen ears for $3.00. That would pay pretty decent.

Posted By: Don(MO)
Date Posted: 09 Dec 2010 at 7:04pm

Dave I can have Dad come up and help you pick up the corn. lol

I sale two or three wagon loads to a farmer down south for the same rateas said above.

Don

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3 WD45's with power steering,G,D15 fork lift,D19, W-Speed Patrol, "A" Gleaner with a 330 corn head,"66" combine,roto-baler, and lots of Snap Coupler implements to make them work for their keep.