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What time of year do you pick field corn to eat?
FALL
How do you know when to pick sweet corn?
You know when to pick sweet corn when the kernels are plump and juicy, the husks are green and tight, and the silk is brown and dry.
How is corn picked from the field?
A Crop Sweeper is the best way to pick up down corn. It can be found at www.cropsweeper.com.
What is a field where corn grows called?
A "corn field".
Why detassel field corn?
You detassel field corn to prevent cross-pollination, often from an adjacent field where seed corn is being grown.
Can you plant sweet corn and field corn in same field?
You can, but if they pollinate at the same time, the sweet corn will taste all starchy and not sweet because it crossed with the field corn.
What doest Pick up ears of corn?
Not really. A lot of the corn pick-up headers are made so that corn can be harvested standing, not swathed into a swath.
How do they pick the corn that goes to the grocery store?
They physically pick it
When is it time to pick corn off the stalk?
It is good to pick corn off the stalk when they are mature and it requires warm temperatures.
What does field corn look like?
Here is a link to a picture of field corn: http://www.bigoo.ws/backgrounds/food/off-the-cob-field-corn-179995.htm
Do raccoons eat field corn?
Yes, raccoons do eat field corn. They are known to raid cornfields and feed on the corn kernels.
Is it true that farmers grow corn by planting cow corn on the out side and sweet corn on the inside of the field so that people don't take the sweet corn?
Actually no.. quite on the contrary if any. If the farmer grows both cow corn and sweet corn, the way we did it was the sweet corn on the outside 3 or 4 or however many rows, and the cow corn on the inside. It made it easier to pick, and you didn't ruin any cow corn when you tried to harvest it, because the outside was sweet corn which had already been picked.Additional Info.While it is very occasionally done, as both the answer above and one of the discussion points mention, it is only done in either way (outside or inside the field) on a very small portion of the field -- for the farm family's convenience. If you want high quality sweet corn, it must be planted in a location isolated from field (cow) corn, or any other type of corn, because the other corn's pollen will make the sweet corn kernels go "starchy". The best sweet corn (and what you buy in the can or frozen) is grown in a field all by itself for this reason.
