Why do some farms wait till December to Harvest a Corn Field?

Answer 1

Weather,Storage,Time and Dryness. Field corn when sold, must be below a certain moisture content and when picked early is dryed using propane or natural gas which is costly. Corn will dry down if left in the field, but one gambles with the weather. Increasingly we have bigger farms which often plant fields sequentially and use hybrid seeds which mature later and and later to stagger out the harvest. Most farmers have limited storage and may sell directly out of the field. At harvest, local elevators become overwhelmed and a farmer may wait to pick since has no alternative. Corn can be picked in the cold but not the wet, so weather can be a factor. These

Answer 2

The corn you see in the fields in late fall and early winter is feeder corn. A lower quality type not used for human consumption. It's planted very close together for a larger harvest. It's sold mainly as a cattle feed or to slop the hogs. It's more of a bland flavored corn, rather than the nice sweet ears, we are accustomed to eating at the family barbecue. But it does make a good feed for livestock...

Answer 3

They don't want fresh corn. They want dried corn. It will be used either in animal feed or perhaps for corn meal.

Answer 4

Haven't you ever heard of winter wheat?

Same concept :>.

-Em