What's important is that the husks of corn be moist and green. That means getting yourself out to the nearest farmers' market or roadside stand for the sweetest corn ever. No summer food celebration would be complete without one of the greatest tastes of the season - sweet corn. As far as cooking goes, you can't go wrong by following the old adage about corn: "Start the water boiling, pick it and cook it. If you prepare grilled corn according to the editors' method, you can use a visual...

All the other farmers with all this corn have just been working themselves to death. Daniel knows many South Georgia farmers planted big crops of field corn, to take advantage of the ethanol demand for the crop. He says the irrigated crops will make it, but the dry land corn is a disaster because of the drought. Agronomists say scattered rain showers over the weekend gave some relief, but Georgia farmers are still a long way from recovering from the extreme drought. Despite drought, sweet...

In the Midwest, where little corn is raised for grain, more corn silage is being fed and being supplemented with steam- flaked corn with other byproducts. In preparation for the ration this fall, dairy producers who grow their own feed may want to devote more acreage to corn for silage this spring, and dairy producers who purchase their feed may want to contract more corn silage. While cost per hundredweight of milk is key to the bottom line, many of these other feeds also have risen in...

Plant in the southwest side of the garden so the tall corn plants won't shade out the rest of your crops (or grow corn where it will shade greens and other plants that cannot tolerate direct summer sun) Sweet, Sweeter, Sweetest Sweet corn can be divided into three major groups: standard, or normal sugary (su); sugar-enhanced (se); and supersweet, or shrunken (sh2) By Gretchen Roberts I grew up in the Midwestern Corn Belt, where one of summer's enduring memories is stopping at farmers'...

His experimental design called for planting sweet corn in either early May or late June and allowing weeds to grow to various heights (e. In other plots, Williams let the weeds - including common lambsquarters, redroot pigweed and green foxtail - grow throughout the corn's growing season, about 83 days. May and June are peak months of planting for both fresh and processing markets. A few years ago, Williams decided to determine the critical weed-control period and, for good measure, find...