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I bought some beautiful sweet corn at the grocery store for 10 cents an ear today, to put in the freezer. Every ear was perfect. Sure can't raise it for that. I just wonder how much insecticide is on it. I have never been able to raise corn without some worm damage. I have tried BT and other supposedly safe remedies. Even put vegetable oil on the ears by hand one year. I sure don't have time for that.

(quoted from post at 17:08:32 07/03/15) I bought some beautiful sweet corn at the grocery store for 10 cents an ear today, to put in the freezer. Every ear was perfect. Sure can't raise it for that. I just wonder how much insecticide is on it. I have never been able to raise corn without some worm damage. I have tried BT and other supposedly safe remedies. Even put vegetable oil on the ears by hand one year. I sure don't have time for that.

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No doubt it is the new GMO stuff...BT is in its genes.....

What grocery store? I was in one a few days ago, sweet corn there was 50 cents an ear.

I still need to do some can corn for the farm fair in two weeks. It is the biggest pain of all canning. I have the special round knife thingy to cut the kernels off and a 40qt pressure cooker. This is the biggest thing Presto made. You need like 25 or 30 ears and about three hours of tedious work. Now for all of that work you are LUCKY to get five or six PINTS!!! The taste is Heavenly in the middle of winter but BOY what a lot of work. By the way that round knife makes very pretty kernels for the entry stuff and cutting the ear messes up how they look so that is why I do it this way.

Couple of days ago I bought 5 ears at Walmart for .10 an ear. Kroger has been having it for .25 an ear. Think a couple of others that I wasen't to also had for the .25 ear

Leroy- Yesssiree, sister called today and told me Walmart had bi-color sweet corn for 10 cents an ear. That's $1.20 a dozen. Shoot, I sold sweet corn in roadside stand in 1997 for $1.25 a dozen and that was when corn seed and fertilizer was cheaper.

I can't compete with those prices.

(quoted from post at 19:45:36 07/03/15) Leroy- Yesssiree, sister called today and told me Walmart had bi-color sweet corn for 10 cents an ear. That's $1.20 a dozen. Shoot, I sold sweet corn in roadside stand in 1997 for $1.25 a dozen and that was when corn seed and fertilizer was cheaper.

I can't compete with those prices.

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You just have to have special corn. We sell ours for $5 a dozen, last year we had to limit quantities. I've planted bigger fields this year, hopefully we will have enough.

Yours is fresh sweet corn and worth the $5,corn that has been off the stalk over half a day is hog corn as far as I'm concerned.I like to eat it in under 15 minutes from picking.That stuff at Walmart
has to be pretty old.

Just open the freezer door and throw it in there with the shucks intact. There is no better way to freeze corn than as nature made it. If there happens to be a worm in it, just get rid of it later when you thaw it out. Canning corn is a great way to preserve the harvest, but much too labor intensive. If I remember correctly, the processing time is about an hour and a half for pints.?? Just a flat pain in the rear. I canned corn for years until an uncle asked me why I was doing all that BS. He saved me hours of work every year afterwards. He is gone now (not food poisoning), but his methods live on here. I have gotten corn out of the freezer way over a year later and it is just as good as fresh. Disclaimer: I realize that different varieties have different qualities, so I will say that your corn is going to act like it is going to whether you or I like it, and I refuse to accept any responsibility. I will say that canning is one of the best ways to keep foods for a long period of time, and I will continue to can everything I can can!!!.Some vegetables will get mushy and lose color in jars over years time, but are still fine to eat. Important to keep rotated. I don't know about the nutritional loss long term. As soon as I get another season of food canned, I start using up any left overs from last year. I encourage canning. Can-can.!!, but freeze corn.

Freezer space is too valuable to tie up for something that can be canned as far as I am conserned. And with canned you do not have to worry about freezer quiting and loosing all you have in there. 10 year ago lost 2 big freezers full of food due to storm and power outage. Canned you don't have any worries about that.

It used to be that way with sweet corn, but today's varieties stay sweet for several days after picking. I have a couple of varieties I plant that are good for a week or so after picking. I can remember as little as twenty years ago that sweet corn regardless of the variety, needed to be eaten within hours of picking or it was no better than cow corn. Left overnight, it was barely edible, and yup, it went to the pigs.

"That stuff at Walmart has to be pretty old."

Yeh, shipped from China. LOL!

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I couldn't disagree more you must be a seed corn salesman