Selling ear corn and custom picking

Nick167

Member
How much would you guys sell ear corn for just regular field corn? I'm trying to figure out what to do with my corn after I pick it and would like to sell it would a quarter an ear be a bad price? And how much would you guys charge for custom picking by the acre? I figured I offer to do that and see if anyone local was looking to have it done.
 
I sell ear corn to people who feed their cattle and also to people who feed squirrels. For a feed sack of corn for squirrels I get $4-$5. To those who buy in bulk for cattle, I am usually at $0.10-$0.25/bu over the local elevator price for shelled corn. It is figured at 70#/bu- approximately 56# of corn and 14# of cobs in every bushel. So it depends who you are marketing it to, and how much you have to sell. I would charge custom combine rate per acre for harvesting it, and that might not be enough, considering the time it takes to pick and haul the extra volume. If you can get $0.25/ear as I understood you wanted, you could gross well over $6000/acre...

Lon
 
Bundle the stocks and sell them for Halloween d?cor ! May even be worth more with the ears left on ?
 
Knew a fellow who made good money selling ear corn to folks for wildlife feed. He charged $6 per gunny sack sack, $5 if you brought your own bags.
 
A quarter an ear would be a good price for you, a bad price for a customer, but there are a lot of town folk that would think that's an ok deal..... Depends on how you package it, if you are sorting ears and putting in vented bags of 10 then it's not a bad price but if you are selling any volume without any sorting or cleaning of husks and so, then it's a little steep.

Paul
 
I pick through my ear corn and put 24 good ears in a bag and sell it for 5 bucks off my self serve stand in my drive. Shelled corn 5 bucks for a 23 lb bag. I sell corn stalks on my pumpkin stand for 5 dollars a bundle of 10-12 tall stalks. Been doing it for probably 20 years and do pretty good with all the city folks around me.
 
As other have said package and market your corn for homeowners. If you custom pick small acerage for others, they may well be your compeditors in the the same marketplace.
Loren
 
Thanks everyone and for the custom work I was asking for the acre the 25 cents was for sale the ear corn outright not for the custom work
 
I sell a 20lb bag of ear corn for $2.50, a 10lb bag of shelled corn for $3.00 and a 50 lb bag of shelled corn for $7.50
 
Was in Kroger's, $3.98 for a hand (what we called 3 ears when I was a kid) of Indian corn.

As an aside, worked for a nursery when I was a teen, sold them bundles of stalks for decoration from our fields. Tied together a few hands of field corn, you wouldn't believe the number of times I heard "Look at that bright yellow Indian corn!"

Fred
 

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