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| nice to hear from you Marc... how did you sell your Indian corn? Tied in bundles for use as a door display?
you mentioned isolation from sweet corn. I am wondering about isolation from #2 yellow dent. According to my student who helped harvest the corn, the adjacent #2 yellow dent corn had some purple kernels. We might be able to direct market those ears for a premium (WIU's school colors are purple and gold) but would this be a significant quality concern at a grain elevator. Would a load of commodity corn be rejected if it had 0.1% purple kernels?
Does anyone know why yellow is the standard color for commodity corn? Do colored kernels cause a yield hit... or some other real or perceived quality concern?
According to the literature, anthocyanins impart insect resistance and some nutritional quality benefits... maybe more of us should be growing purple corn.
what do you think?
Joel
WIU Agriculture
BTW It looks like a beautiful day for our Twilight tour tonight... hope to see some of you at *5*pm at the intersection of 20th St and 20th Ave in southwest Warren Cty, IL. | |
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Cranberry corn (pics)
