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Popcorn

There is as much variety in size and kernel color in popcorn as in any other kind of com. You can buy black, blue, red, burgundy, baby yellow, baby white all of which have their devotees. 1 prefer regular old yellow popcorn, but who caresr The important thing to remember is that according to the journal of the American Dietetic Association in its May 2008 issue, popcorn eaters get a 22 percent higher intake of liber than those who don’t eat popcorn.

Popcorn is the easiest type of corn to grow. It germinates and comes up faster. We grow an old open-pollinated kind that friends gave us. It doesn’t have a name that I know of. It grows as well as hybrid varieties. Popcorns typically require from 95 to 120 days to mature, but I suppose there are exceptions to that. Plant popcorn at the same time you’d plant your field com or right after youi early sweet com.

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All seed houses sell ornamental or “Indian” corn seed. The variet-ies are usually non-hybricls, so you can save the seed. One excep-tion is ‘Purple Husk Hybrid*, an Indian corn with purple rather than white husks. New hybrids and new introductions of old open- pollinated varieties are always coming and going. Study your cata-logs. Ornamental com needn’t be “wasted” on decoration alone. When you no longer want it for the centerpiece on the table, you can feed it to chickens or livestock.An accepted principle of agricultural economics states that the more corn (or any grain) produced with a given amount of time and labor, the lower the per-unit cost of production. The more acres farmed, the more acres to spread the cost of fanning over. The larger the operation, therefore, the more “efficient” it can be. The soundness of this principle is no longer taken for granted.

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