The corn turned out better than I expected and every week I've been watching it as it matured and now as it dries.
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| The leaves are starting to die on the corn plants, but still very green |
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| the tips of two ears; top one a bit drier than the bottom |
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| No sign of the black layer yet |
The combine is working; greased and oiled and charged up. the corn head is welded up and ready to go; I'm hooking up the grain drier this week so that I can dry the corn down to something that will keep very well - I'd like to be able to feed this corn to my pigs for the next year.
And I should probably start thinking about putting aside some of this crop for the seed corn for next year. I've been pretty pleased with it; it's open-pollinated organic corn; so unlike hybrids should be pretty similar next year. Plus it's a heck of a lot cheaper to put up my own seed than buy it again. Seed corn is expensive.
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What variety of OP corn did you plant?
I've been growing small plots of Minnesota 13 (87 day) OP corn for a number of years trying to convince myself that I could grow it on a larger far-scale. My thought has always been that I'd need something like a 87-day variety to avoid the heat of late summer that's common here, but a shorter season variety might also be what you need to get enough degree-days to reach maturity earlier in the fall.
FWIW, I always bought my OP corn seed from: http://openpollinated.com/
They sell a few different varieties and always seemed reasonably priced.
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