What is the difference between sweet corn, field corn, and heirloom corns?
The differences are in flavor and use, but also in engineering. While sweet corn is what most people are familiar with (corn on the cob or off), field corn is used to produce sweeteners for many processed foods and also turned into livestock feed. All quad corn are modern, industrial hybrids. By contrast, Heirloom corns are diverse open-pollinated varieties that were grown before the rise of modern industrial agriculture in the mid-20th century. Unlike most corn grown for food production today, heirloom varieties are not genetically engineered and treated for maximum yield. Modern industrial agricultural typically practices monocultural production—where diversity of the crop is sacrificed for consistency and high yield. By contrast, heirloom plants represent the greater diversity of food production practiced in earlier periods of human history, and offer a more biologically diverse alternative to the current practices of industrial food production. When will the corn be ready? The corn
