Anyone Growing Open-pollinated Corn?

C. Amick · Jan 16, 2013

I've been growing two varieties of open-pollinated sweet corn that I bought from RH Shumway. A guy gave me some Reids Yellow Dent field corn seed to try. I've also grown Minnesota-13 and Silver Mine field corn in the past. The Reids Yellow Dent has really big ears. I liked the Minnesota-13. It is a medium sized ear with a smaller diameter cob and easier to get dry. I'm looking for another variety of field corn to also try, preferably a white variety. I may buy some Silver Mine seed, if nothing else pops up.

David G · Jan 16, 2013

My neighbor does, look up Abbe Hills Farm.

farmallboy15 · Jan 16, 2013

I've grown Reid's, Lancaster sure crop and Boone county white. The yellows didn't do too well. Boone county white made some big ears and some small ones and TALL stalks. Last year had beck's hybrids (my uncle's a dealer), it had more consistent nice ears.

730 virgil · Jan 16, 2013

how does it yield?

DeltaRed · Jan 16, 2013

I tried some for 2 or 3 years.Never got to harvest any of it.It would not dry,and it all fell over.But it had HUGE ears.Some of those ears were dry,but some stayed wet.I tried a white and a yellow variety.There was often 2 good ears,some times 3.It was also very tall,with the ears at shoulder/head high.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2013

I grow silver mine here in so. ga. it does very well.

Chester5731 · Jan 17, 2013

I have grown wapsie valley from openpollinated.com the last two years. It has done well for me. It will field dry enough to put in a crib which is what I do. 2011 protien was 11.8% and 2012 was 9.6%. It yields around 100bpa which is no record but I am in sand and hybrid corn never did any better.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2013

for about 25 yrs we have been keeping some white corn goin here ,, in perfect season the stalks are hardy and tall , the ears are sometimes 4 feet apart on the same stalk and are long and fat, a real challenge for a single row snapper /picker to yank the entire stalk down to pull the ear,,and then they tend to lodqge in the elevator .iraise 3-5 acres a year for cow feed ,,and combine some to flush the machine of r-ready , to go to non gmo corn , white corn sells rite along as non gmo

C. Amick · Jan 17, 2013

I checked out Abbe Hills Farm web site. They are now growing an improved variety of Reids Yellow Dent. They have had the Reids Yellow Dent seed since 1903, but in 2007 they did some cross-polination with other varietes to improve the seed. Might be worth trying.

C. Amick · Jan 17, 2013

Would you sell me some seed, if I decide to try Silver Mine again? I remember it being a really nice looking corn. Mine didn't all mature the last time I planted it, though. I live further south now, which should help.

Suffolk1 · Jan 17, 2013

I've grown both Reids Yellow Dent and Wapsie Valley. Both have done well under irrigated conditions. Wapsie Valley is suppose to be shorter maturing, but I haven't noticed any difference. It also has some red ears - maybe 5 percent or so. Harvest with a horsedrawn corn binder so don't have much yield data. Some of the tallest Reids Yellow Dent has been over 12 feet high. Can get lost in a patch like that.

JMS/.MN · Jan 17, 2013

During Prohibition, yield was not in bpa.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 17, 2013

Trying Wapsie Valley 85 for the first time this year.

alfarmer76 · Mar 18, 2013

I need some help finding some OP corn seed for S.E. Georgia our season is much different than the mid-west and I think I would need a different variety than used there.912-531-3746

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