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    Posted: 28 Dec 2018 at 12:00pm
Ok, So my interest is producing Ear corn for sale.
 
IF:
 
1 acre of field corn yields 150 bushel
 
1 (70# Bag) Bushel of ear corn goes for let's say $20 (Is this far off? TSC Sells a 15 Lb. bag for $8.00)
 
That's $3,000
 
Deducting about $500 in inputs (Seed, spray, machinery)
 
Maybe about another $300 in bags, transport fuel, Etc...?

Looking at $2,200 per acre Net?

Is this even close, what am I missing? I am not sure about the 150 bushel per acre yield though. I know good field corn is around 200 bushel an acre, but how does that equate out to field picked corn? Also, The corn rows would be wider around 30" than some farmers today planting at 20" Spacing.
 
Thanks for the help, just rough penciling an idea. School me guys! Thanks!
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Labor and time, will someone buy it all at once or slowly over time, storage, mice and rodents love this stuff.
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First  you have to have that $20/bu. market!
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote ac fleet Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 28 Dec 2018 at 1:19pm
Most of these ventures end in big failure. Too many things can and do go wrong. As nella(Pa) states, Gotta have a positive market BEFORE getting into it!---Also storage and delivery are problems.
I had over an acre this year and could not give it away, so I ended up plowing it under! thanks; ac fleet
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You want to advertise it a squirrel or deer feed 
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I feed most of what I grow.
It has a feed replacement cost that = app $10.00/bu.
Plus my sheep get 60 days or more of grazing the corn fields with the stockpiled pasture.
I want to leave 10-20 bu/ac on the ground for them.
By late Dec, my sheep (160+ ewes ) are fat.
What I sell is priced at app shell corn + $0.50 more per bu.
My out of pocket cost runs app $1.50/bu.
Yes, I know very well, that is not the total cost for the corn.
They are farmers here in KY raising/selling 10,000 - 20,000 bu each year.
ac fleet, if you was trying to get someone to come and pick just one acre, I can see your problem. I would not drive my uni over a mile for just one acre. The drive would be  longer than it would take to pick it.
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I had this picked and in the wagon, all they had to do is come get it!--No takers, so I dumped it back on the ground and plowed it under. --I have a NI 310 one row picker.
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Don, here is the point we are all missing.
What is it worth to you, to get to use your AC tractor, with your AC corn picker to pick the corn?
You could charge $25/row to let people pick one row, just for fun. Maybe give them a ear or two also.
Your forum member special could be " pick two rows for $50 and get 5 ears of corn".
If you go this route, remember to plant the rows the short way across the field. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Don(MI) Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Dec 2018 at 4:44pm
Not sure people would pay that to pick corn, but I just figured I would maybe get ideas then pencil out to see if there is profit with picked corn. I just would love to use this orange pickin machine instead of it sitting in the barn.

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Don, I have people stop by all the time to help out on my farm.
Most of the time they bring their kids to show them what it like.
This sq baling hay, shearing sheep, etc. that they help with. Not just stopping by to visit a farm.
I have not started charging them yet, but sometimes they will leave a bottle KY springwater that has been aged in a oak barrel.
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I always sold ear corn, whole stalks, cracked corn, shelled corn, when I grew it. didn't take the whole field worth, but added good $$$ to the rest of it. and usually in cash. ear corn for squirrels, corn stalks for holloween décor, cracked corn for wild bird feed, whole kernel corn for corn stoves. then took what was left over to the elevator. I don't know how many acres you are talking about. or if you have good safe storage? lots of hobby places will buy cobs too
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I think the same kind of thing when I see a bale hay at the hardware store for $12. I think I can sell it for half that and I’m sitting on a gold mine!

The reality is, we farmers don’t get the foot traffic hence we don’t have the market.

Now with the deer feeding ban, I lost half the market of the few bags of corn and 2 nd or 3 rd cut hay. Good luck to you, hopefully something works out.
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T-Bone, advertise in the local paper or craigs list, after they buy your stuff they can do what ever they want with it, you have no control on that. I found some real good green leafy alfalfa at $10. a small square bale, I bought 15 bales to get me thru the winter feeding the goat, also bought out wally worlds bagged cracked corn at $3. a bag, was called deer corn...it's n ow goat corn! if it's nice stuff, people will come and buy it, but they gotta know where it'
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