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OT: Indian Corn Question

RBnSC

RBnSC

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We planted about six acres of Indian corn that we got from a farmer that raised some from seed he got from a novelty store. We plant corn to sell to hunters to bait deer. He claimed the deer seem to like it better than hybrid corn. The other reason is we have customers that will pay a good price for corn that is dark. We picked out and hand shelled all purple ears and that is what we planted. questions: What are the possibilities that the majority of that corn will be that same color? And all things being equal what would one expect to yield % wise verses normal hybrid seed?
Ron
 
It doesn't sound like you can make any promises about it; just tell your customers what you know and let them decide.

Here in PA the Game Commission gives away corn and alfalfa seed by the bag for food plots.
 
I plant indian corn on my deer food plots too mainly just because it's open pollinated so I can save seed each year. The wife likes it too for falltime decorations.

If you are careful about choosing your seed I think you could get it to produce a crop that is mostly all one color. There will probably always be some variation though because the genetics are hardly pure, at least my seed isnt.

Your 'yield' will not be even close to what modern hybrid corn will make. I never cared about that much since I am not growing it to sell.

There is one drawback with it, you can't use roundup on it like you could modern hybrid corn. So you have to figure out other ways to deal with the weeds like cultivating. I have used 2-4D in mine at times too which you have to apply carefully, I used a handheld garden sprayer when I did it so I could hit the weeds and not hit the corn so hard.
 
Thanks Guys, that is what I was wondering. We have not been making any money with corn anyway. We will pick some with the combine and the rest with the picker and bag it. We work our corn anyway instead of spraying.
Ron
 
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