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11/04/12, 07:12 AM
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Bloody butcher corn seed
I am looking for enough Bloody butcher corn seed to plant about five acres next spring (providing we get some rain). All the internet sources seem to want $5.00 for fifty seeds or $200.00 for ten pounds. I'm looking for some common sense prices. I allow since the corn harvest is almost complete there might be some available. Any help in this matter would be appreciated.
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11/04/12, 07:25 AM
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Is bloody butcher a field corn? I thought it was a sweet corn. Anyway, I have a good source for OP field corn, but they dont have the kind you want. > Thanks Marc
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11/04/12, 07:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Jugum
I am looking for enough Bloody butcher corn seed to plant about five acres next spring (providing we get some rain). All the internet sources seem to want $5.00 for fifty seeds or $200.00 for ten pounds. I'm looking for some common sense prices. I allow since the corn harvest is almost complete there might be some available. Any help in this matter would be appreciated.
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Ive seen it far less than that. Let me go thru my supplier list and I'll get back to you
And it is a field corn. I have some growing right now. We ate a mess as roasting ears a few days back.
I looked and the one place I think may be cheaper has their site down. The best I have found is $112.50 for 10 lbs so far.
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11/04/12, 07:42 AM
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Yes, it is field corn I've been planting Reids dent for the past two years. This year with the drought we had a total crop failure, didnt even make enough to save seed for next year never seen corn die so fast. I'm having to buy corn to feed the pigs and chickens never wanted to do that.
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11/04/12, 08:07 AM
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this drought business was the worst..hope you find what you need
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11/04/12, 08:31 AM
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I have some growing right now. We ate a mess as roasting ears a few days back.
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11/04/12, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Jugum
Yes, it is field corn I've been planting Reids dent for the past two years. This year with the drought we had a total crop failure, didnt even make enough to save seed for next year never seen corn die so fast. I'm having to buy corn to feed the pigs and chickens never wanted to do that.
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Do you have any idea how much seed you need? I dont even know the seed count per pound on it.
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11/04/12, 02:52 PM
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My dad and grandad planted it in those times. Ive got 2 50lb bags I paid $40ea for. I didnt farm this year, and hope theyll still do OK next year.
Im going to try to plant in 20in rows so I likely will be looking for some more for 5 acres myself. Bet its HIGH next year with the crop failure this year. The guy I INTENDED to buy from here in Okla for $40 a bag and save shipping had his corn all burned up LAST year
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11/04/12, 05:27 PM
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Seed count per pound is somwhere between 2500 and 3000. I generally plant at 21000 population on 36 in rows. So I probably need at least 25 lbs.
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11/04/12, 05:34 PM
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11/04/12, 06:04 PM
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Check RHShumway .com. that is where i get mine. They have consumer and farmer prices
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11/04/12, 06:06 PM
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My corn did well this year. I don't have Bloody Butcher but I do have Leaming which is very adaptable to different areas. The only thing is my corn was planted near some vegetable gardens and a bit of sweet corn crossed with it last year and this year. However it can be selected out fairly easily over a few years to the point where it would be rare to find any sweet corn in it. If you want it I would be willing to make a fair deal with you. I planted about an acre this year. I've pick it all now and I have found fourteen ears with some sweetcorn kernels in them. Some sweet corn was planted right next to a small portion of it this year and so I expect next year I may find a bit more than this year. The sweet corn kernels don't show up until the following year. You will find an ear with maybe less than 1/3 sweet corn kernels in it. Just don't use those ears for seed and in a few years it will almost be gone.
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11/04/12, 06:09 PM
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I also do have a bit of (not a lot) Bloody Butcher from years past which I believe is still viable and I could include some of it to get you started if you want. I also have a bit of Boone County White from a few years ago which is not crossed as it was the only corn planted for about two miles around.
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11/04/12, 06:46 PM
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Come to think of it I do have some of the Leaming from about five or six years ago that was never crossed with any sweet corn. I did a germination test on it last spring out of curiosity and it was fine because I've kept it very dry. However I've been selecting it each year to improve it and using the older stuff would take me back five or six years. I could test it and if it's okay you could have that and avoid the sweet corn and start selecting for whatever traits you prefer in it. Whatever, I've got Leaming seed and a bit of Bloody Butcher or Boone County White if you want it.
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11/04/12, 07:04 PM
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I Think youll need more than 25#s to do 5 acres. Id guess more like 35/40#
I dont think RHS handles BB corn.
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11/04/12, 07:18 PM
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I got some at Seed savers, but not in that quantity, so I am not sure of the cost. Mine did not survive the drought this summer.
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11/04/12, 07:41 PM
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I Think youll need more than 25#s to do 5 acres. Id guess more like 35/40#
I dont think RHS handles BB corn.
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They do, but in garden sizes.
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11/04/12, 09:02 PM
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Alla us corn grows, A HEADS UP. We are going to have to learn to plant earlier, NO MATTER where we are. The times they are a changeing, and along with that, the climate. We are going to have to learn to be extremely observant of the signs and weather patterns, and learn to have to take a gamble as to whether we want to take the chance of a late frost getting us by the butts, or the sure certaintity of the corn being cooked in the summer.
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