O.T. Roadside stand sweetcorn prices

IA Roy · Jul 24, 2016

Stopped to get a half dozen ears this morning. It was $4 for a half dozen or $7 for a dozen. I haven't bought any for quite awhile off the street. I thought it was a little high, but bought some anyway. What are they getting in your neighborhood? By the way it was good.

WCS · Jul 24, 2016

At one place I paid $2.50 for six ears and another place it was $3.00 for six ears.

Aaron SEIA · Jul 24, 2016

Been hearing $3.50-$5 for a bakers dozen around here.
AaronSEIA

LAA · Jul 24, 2016

25 cents an ear, excellent year in my area.

aFORDable · Jul 24, 2016

Granddaughter sold it for $4 a baker's dozen. I've heard $3.75 - $5 around here. (W. Ky.)

Russ from MN · Jul 24, 2016

WM had some for .10 the other day, I can only eat about 1 a week, as much as I hate to shop at WM I bought 4, 1 for me and 3 for the deer!

Greg1959 · Jul 24, 2016

The roadside stand I stopped at did not have sweet corn yet. But, I ended up paying $2.00 per pound for tomatoes. Way too high IMHO.

Ray IN · Jul 24, 2016

We have a roadside stand in southwest IN and also go to farmers markets. We still sell it for $4/doz at the stand, but at the market it is $.50 each or $5/doz. I could sell it cheaper, but there is so much loss and inefficiency in producing it. To have it available every day in the quantity needed, you have to plant about every 4 or 5 days. Then the birds and coons get their share. Some patches you can harvest over 1,000 dozen per acre, but that is the exception. Some stalks simply do not make a good ear, or it is too late to be harvested with the rest. It is easy to grow one patch in the prime season, but not so easy to have 100 dozen available every day from June 25--labor day, and twice that on Friday and Sat. So yes, $7 is too high, but at $4 it is a bargain. For freezing corn 10 doz or more we sell it for $3.

acrcpa · Jul 24, 2016

4.25 doz here in south central Pa. Direct off farm.

47fivewindow · Jul 24, 2016

13 for 5.00 and 50 c each in central Maryland.

UncleTom · Jul 24, 2016

$6 a doz. from the locals. There is a guy that drives 2 hours to sell his corn at $7 a doz. When the $6 corn came ready the $7 guy didnt show up annymore.

pat sublett · Jul 24, 2016

I paid 15 cents apiece for very good sweet corn at the grocery store.

JerryS · Jul 24, 2016

Don't know what the price should be. I do know that if I had plowed, planted, cultivated, fought insects and critters, picked and hauled to my own roadside stand, I would charge whatever I thought I could get.

coonie minnie · Jul 24, 2016

It was good you supported local agriculture. Maybe you could have got corn cheaper somewhere else. But this way all the $ went to the farmer.

jimg.allentown · Jul 24, 2016

I would not eat ANYTHING that came from a WM. It might come from anyplace in the world, might have been sprayed with who-knows-what, and is probably old and stale. YUCK!!!
Keep in mind the food industry scandals from poison dog food to e. coli on lettuce and spinach, and how many other scandals?? Keep in mind that most of what they sell in a WM is from China. Food included. No thank you!!!!!

1206SWMO · Jul 24, 2016

$3.00-$4.00 a dozen in my area......Lots of Amish helps keep the price down..

Adirondack case guy · Jul 24, 2016

Jimg.allentown
My son is a produce inspector at our local WM distribution center. The incoming produce is regional, and local when in season. You don't have a clue what you are saying, and he does reject poor quality produce.
He also says that the standards for "organic grown produce" are substandard to natural grown produce.
Loren, the Acg.

Indiana George · Jul 24, 2016

Roadside stand down the street from me has $4.00 doz.Grocery store has 3 for a dollar

IA Roy · Jul 24, 2016

I just talked to my dad. 25 miles south of me they are asking $6 per dozen. Still a little high, but will pay what I have to, if I want it bad enough!

daisyman · Jul 24, 2016

Here in SE Iowa yesterday, seven big ears picked that morning for $2.00. Peaches and cream....Yummmmmm! And they gave me two tomatoes! I also bought a small sack of a different kind of potatoes. Little ones, I wish I could remember the name. Young man said they were hard to grow. Sliced them in half and boiled them in the corn water first, then put them a skillet with a little olive oil and butter, a scallion and a little seasoning salt and pepper and made them nice and brown. Had a can of Bushs' baked beans to go with it....Man what a feast!!

Oops, did I get off the subject?? Got to thinking about it and couldn't help myself.....Sorry :>/

Irv

jwal10 · Jul 25, 2016

4 for a dollar here, at the store or the fruit stand. I raise my own....James

merlynr · Jul 25, 2016

(quoted from post at 22:11:56 07/24/16) 4 for a dollar here, at the store or the fruit stand. I raise my own....James

I got a free one from across the fence. It was nice looking and while my buddy finished round baling I took a big bite.....yuk.

NW Ohio Tim · Jul 25, 2016

Neighbor up the road has a stand, first corn a week ago last Thursday and will be done this Wednesday, not enough rain for a good bumper crop. $3.50/ bakers dozen. Patch is right across the road from the stand. It never lays on the table for more than a couple of hours. Awful good stuff this year.

Tim

Bob Kerr · Jul 25, 2016

I paid $5.50 a dozen last week. I thought high, but corn was perfect! Heck fire, everything is high right now. Maybe $5.50 is in line. I also didn't mind since the people I bought from bring us all their black walnuts in fall for us to hull.

GeneMO · Jul 25, 2016

It is actually worth about $15 a dozen. Let me explain.

I spent a morning last fall plowing and cleaning off the garden.

Then I disked it and got it ready this spring.

Then I spent about $20 on sweet corn seed, and some was given to me.

Planted it.

Fertilized it

Tilled several times. Starting to get hot, so I sweated my behind off.

Had to put up the electric fencing to keep the coons out. That took several hours, and both sides were still up from last year.

Weed eated and sprayed under the electric fence.

Tilled some more.

Had to water it during a dry spell, drug out house, step ladder tp put the sprinkler on, got all muddy and hot doing this.

Coons got into the first batch. Dont know how they got across electric fence. Must be old smart ones.

Spent several hours putting out 3 types of traps.

Had to drive to the farm, since several of the traps were of the live type and I didn't want a coon to suffer in the heat while in a trap. (yes, I still feel sorry for the dad blamed things)

Killed three old female coons that had been nursing.

reset the traps, caught one young one and a possum.

Wind blew down sweet corn.

Corn sort of set back up.

Second batch got a little too mature and wifey didn't like it, wouldn't eat it.

Wind blew down corn the other way.

Third batch about ready, went to the farm to check on it, Japanese beetles had eaten the silks and tips off of all the ears. Thought about spraying, but really almost too late, said "F" it !!

I am going to the farmers market.

I think I will pay them $4 to $5 a dozen, the going price, then give em a $20 tip, and will still be cheaper than raising my own!!!!!!!!!!!

Gene

PaGlenn · Jul 25, 2016

Paid 6.00 a dozen yesterday in NJ

Matt E. · Jul 25, 2016

Stopped for gas in north Iowa near Mason City a couple weeks ago. Guy had a truck load selling on the side of the road. $5 dozen, gave him a $20 and filled my 50 qt cooler. BIG ears of peaches and cream, perfect ears and great.

Bonnan · Jul 25, 2016

$4.50 Amish corn here in Western Pa

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