There’s a kernel of truth in that statement.
If you live where they grow it and it’s in season, it’s practically free. Not surprising the price gets jacked up out of season or if it needs to be shipped long distances.
Not sure I could bring myself to spend a dollar per ear though, and I have seen that price. It’s usually crap corn to boot.
I could get a dozen ears for $5 locally at roadside stands this past season. Top notch stuff too.
What the fruct is it with all these puns!
Saw an episode of Shark Tank recently with a guy who wanted to make high quality tortilla chips using sweet corn. All the sharks loved the chips but his costs were 3 times higher than common tortilla chips made from feed corn. Sweet corn has a short shelf life, it degrades in quality as soon as it’s picked. Lower yield per acre for sweet corn was already mentioned. All feed corn will get dried or processed and used somehow, sweet corn that doesn’t sell at the market gets thrown away.
The Select, Choice, and Prime meat you can buy at the grocery or butcher shop costs a lot more than the canning grade stuff also. People pay more for fresh unprocessed food because it looks and tastes better. Once processed those are less important factors and lower grade product can be used. There’s a reason a quality TBone costs more than hot dogs per pound.
I know–to get at the solid info you have to navigate a maize of jokes.
Enough with the ad hominy
You can all kiss my grits.
Or we can behave like adults and stalk this through
You guys and your smooth as silk humor…
This board is only a husk of what it once was.
I’m just amaize . . .
No, no, can’t do it. Sorry. Sorry!
Don’t want to go against the grain, eh?
Aw, shucks! This thread has really gone to seed. It’s downright earie all the bad puns. Tassels and tassels of 'em.
Maybe we need a fresh startch? I can tortilla get down with that!
It’s impressive to see how many jokes can be cobbled together for chicken feed.
Each and every one of you have made The List. Congratulations. You should all be ashamed of yourselves.
Laughing at thread and my voice has gone all husky.
Fresh corn cobs vs dried corn kernels? No.
Fresh ears of corn will be transported in stryrofoam cartons which will be hand packed rather than moving by multiple tonne lots via bulk trucks and conveyors.
They will probably use refrigerated transport and storage.
There will be considerable wastage in the supply chain to store. Any cob that is damaged or shows sign of spoilage will be unsaleable at the retail end. Drop a bag of feed corn and the only problem is having to pick it up again. Once on display the product will have a shelf life of a day, maybe 2.
Compare the retail cost of corn kernels in the form of packs for popping vs fresh on the cob.
Friends, Romans and fellow countrymen…lend me your cheap ears!
When we get ears of corn in at my grocery store we sell for $1 per dozen ($0.08 ear) but i’m buying them on the liquidation market.
The thing about corn is that the ears of corn look good out on display for about 3 hours (seriously) the outside starts to dry out and look terrible, nobody will buy it no matter how cheap it is.
So i would think a regular store needs to work in some high throwaway percentages in order to even think about coming out ahead.