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sweet corn pricing ???

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Dave from MN

07-07-2006 14:56:58




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OK, for whatever reason I have an awesome crop of sweetcorn. Hopefully we get some rain the next week so it stays that way. What I would like to know is what is every one asking for their sweetcorn this year. I do have a lot of well to do buyers that I deliver to for a very good price, but I will have about 3000 dozen more to sell, according to my estimates. All cash goes to the kids college fund, and after $100 the cost are met. I am seeing everything from $ for 6 cobs to $2/dozen( although that was not super swet bicolor. Mine is "peaches and cream" and "phenominal". Would I be a fool to just ask $1/dozen and get rid of it, or just beat the local farm market by .25 and hope for the best.

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mitchp

07-07-2006 21:04:51




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
Last year i sold corn for $2/dozen but this year its gonna have to be 3 dollars, cost went up on everything. if you advertise in your local paper, you should have no problem selling it, even if you are around the market price or above, people will still buy it cause they know its fresh picked, if they argue about the price, tell em' to go to the market and get some corn that was pulled 4-5 days ago and been sitting in the heat for days.

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ChrisH(IA)

07-07-2006 20:22:24




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
Peaches and cream are $4.00 Dozen in Central Ia. My neighbor always said "Better a quick nickel than a slow dime"



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Gary in Mozarks

07-07-2006 18:38:23




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
I am curious, How many acres of sweet corn did you plant?



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Dave from MN

07-07-2006 20:15:17




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Gary in Mozarks , 07-07-2006 18:38:23  
We are leaving for the cabin in the morning, I will touch base with ya all when I get back after the 15th, corn should be about ready to go shortly after. Unless every coon in the township come for a late night snack!



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MN Bob

07-07-2006 17:30:00




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
Dave; Where you are located? Sounds like a nice day trip to come and meet you and pick up several dozen for freezing. If you come up with a price I might take a pickup load or more for the grocer my wife works for. Right now the stores are selling 6 for $2.00 but that will go down when the local market starts. I think it gets to about 1.75 a dozen at the peak. We used to buy off the farm for 1.50 dozen fresh. Let me know, Bob

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Joe in Ne

07-07-2006 16:28:50




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
I'd buy it all for 1.00 a dozen? If you want to sell just get back with me.



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CaptRon

07-07-2006 16:22:09




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
I wish that I could get my hands on some of that Peaches and Cream sweet corn. We usually are in Iowa this time of the year and always eat a ton of it.
This year we aren't going up there and we sure are going to miss it.

CaptRon



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mitchp

07-07-2006 21:01:18




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to CaptRon, 07-07-2006 16:22:09  
where are you at ron? i'm in western nc and i have peaches and cream planted, about a month and a half away from picking



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CaptRon

07-08-2006 06:42:42




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to mitchp, 07-07-2006 21:01:18  
I'm about 35 miles NE of Raleigh, near Bunn.

CaptRon



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BEN in KS

07-07-2006 15:05:23




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 Re: sweet corn pricing ??? in reply to Dave from MN, 07-07-2006 14:56:58  
Sweet corn is too much work for $1.00/dozen IMHO. Markets here are getting 4.00 to 4.25 a dozen. If you don't mind me asking, if this is for your kids' college and you can raise this volume, have you thought about joining or getting involved with the market? A friend of mine near here is a large diversified grain farmer who plants several acres of sweetcorn under part of a center pivot irrigation circle. Three daughters have gone to college on this. Ben

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