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Bgearl · Feb 22, 2021

do any of you farmers on here plant any open pollenated corn been seeing some for sale any pros or cons on it

Bruce from Can. · Feb 22, 2021

I guess one advantage could be you could sell the corn as non GMO. Disadvantage would be , it wont have hybrid vigor or and of the genetically modified traits like BT or root worm resistance . So there could be some yield drag

Moonlite37 · Feb 22, 2021

We raised it when I was a kid. This we had was much softer and made good hominy and was good to eat as roasting ears.

Timmycornpicker · Feb 22, 2021

until fairly recently we had a dairy farmer who planted Goliath open pollinated corn for silage. He always said it made silage with higher protein than hybrids and more of it. I grew Bloody Butcher red OP a couple times when the micro distilleries first opened up around here. They like the red stuff for the flavor it gives. Didn't stand well and was a pain to harvest, but did make 120 bushels an acre, which is pretty good for OP getting most of its nutrients from composted manure. I think it would have been faster and easier to harvest it by cutting it with a corn binder when it was still a little green and curing it in shocks, and then running it through a husker shredder!

fastfarmall · Feb 22, 2021

Their was somebody selling it not so long ago, Minnesota 13, i think was the number!

cjunrau · Feb 22, 2021

My brother grows it and he is organic and cultivates it. his yields have been 80-120 bushels an acre. His cost is much lower than mine even after the fuel to cultivate. end result he sells his for $1 bushel more than me and makes more money per acre. If he sold for same price we would be close to par. we farm in different soil. I have clay and hills where water runs off. he farms in the flats where water sits in fence post holes over 3 ft deep 75% of the year. Corn likes water and it seems to do much better in the sand with high water table.

paul · Feb 22, 2021

The yields are limited, and it is not as resistant or strong to insects, lodging, and so forth. Without a seed treatment you cant plant it too early/ cold.

Some herbicides are harder on the old open pollinated stuff.

Some of the above might not matter, just mentioning them.

Open pollinated makes good silage, and in a low yield environment might be cost effective.

Paul

Traditional Farmer · Feb 23, 2021

Around my area he could get a lot more than a $1 a bushel premium,be more like 3 to 4 dollars,more to individuals.Large organic outfit Countryside Organics sells a lot of organic feed for all different animals,plus around Harrisonburg VA think its called Georges is a group of large organic poultry growers.Big demand for organic grains.

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