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![]() ![]() ![]() Manix has a system that is more profitable. Organic enterprise budgets from New York and Pennsylvania put the net profit from sweet corn at $1,200 to $1,700 per acre. It requires a lot of land and soil fertility, seed is expensive, and it can require several pesticide applications, all tending to lower net profit. The crop, worth $4 million in 2010, is essential to local markets, he said – as a draw rather than a big money maker. ![]() Handley said that 300 Maine farmers grow sweet corn on 2,400 acres (30 to 50 percent of the state’s vegetable acreage, not including potatoes). David Handley, UMaine Cooperative Extension vegetable and small fruit specialist, and Jack Manix of Walker Farm in Vermont covered this topic at MOFGA’s 2014 Farmer to Farmer Conference. Organic sweet corn has profit potential for farms and is a great draw to farm stands and farmers’ markets – if grown well. Sweet corn can not only lure customers to your farm stand but can be profitable, as well. ![]()
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