Field trip

NO. STOP. I've had fresh Japanese corn first thing in the morning before, it was the sweetest and most delicious corn. Compared to that mass produced in the states it would be a shame to promote that in Japan. The US takes such terrible care of the huge crops they have that the quality is rubbish. IMHO one of the best things about Japan is the quality and care that is taken in their food products.

I am not sure it is about the care of the farm Abhorsenaube. I think it is more about genetically altered seed for abundant yield and fast growth.

That plump farmer must be doing something right compared to those skinny folks from Japan!

Corn fields in Japan look something like this. http://blog.livedoor.jp/sonohara_/archives/12456470.html

How could US farmers grow corn stalks like a jungle?

Corn has got to be one of the most rigged markets ever. Big Ag + Big Gov tilts everything so that only the rich benefit, while the vast poor of the world pay EXTRAORDINARILY high prices for all grains.

Shady farm subsidies (To large corp farms) High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn based Ehtanol, all government backed scams that are artificially and significantly increasing the price of corn (and every other grain) around the world.

That being said, I love me a big tub of hot buttered popcorn.

They look really skeptical. I don't think they are buying it.

Unlike corn grown in Japan, the vast majority of Corn grown in the US cannot be eaten off the cob. It's a foul tasting variety called Yellow Dent No. 2 which is grown solely to be processed into high fructose Corn Syrup, ol' El Paso Tortillas and cattle feed.

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Well, 3 out 6 commentators on this article don't c.ap.

I love the camera angle, makes the guy on the left look 2.5m tall.

@Abhorsenaube, Hard to compare sweet corn to field corn. They may look the same but don't taste anything like each other. There is a lot of really good sweet corn grown all over the US in home gardens.

@ZombieNemesis

Hard to compare sweet corn to field corn. They may look the same but don't taste anything like each other.

Can you explain the difference between these varieties of corn and why they don't taste anything like eachother?

@M3M3M3

Field corn is grown in massive blocks of land and used for processed foods like cereal and corn syrup, its also used to make ethanol. The latter arguably the driving force behind the massive fields of corn in the mid west US. Sweet corn is eaten unprocessed, an although grown by farmers too, it is a very popular garden vegetable. I've tried field corn raw, and its not awful, but it is nothing like sweet corn.

@ZombieNemesis

Thank you for claryfing that important difference between the type of corn in the photo and that which is mostly commonly eaten in Japan. It is very relevant in my opinion.

@CH3CHO, Sweet corn fields in the US look the same as those in Japan.

Sweet corn is planted ever .3m, in rows about a 1m apart, so 3 to 4 plans per sq meter. Its usually gown without a lot of herbicides or pesticides. Field corn (pictured above) is genetically modified and matched with exacting amounts and types of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Making it possible for the plant density to be apx. 10x higher. My dad, having grown up on a farm that grew field corn for animal feed, choose to not follow the planting instructions for sweet corn and set his plants and rows the same as field corn. He harvested nothing that year. The following year he poked the seeds in the ground per the instructions and ended up with more sweet corn than he could eat.

Probably some US Govt ploy to push Genetically Modified Monsanto seed rubbish.

There's already enough corn produced to feed the world, except corn producers can earn more money by selling the corn as animal feed or to produce ethanol.

No mention of bio-diesel made from the corn stems!

"growing corn to supply the world with food at a reasonable price" yeah right.

It looks like FAT Boy thinks if he smiles BIG enough, CutiePie there will go OUT wih him LATER.

ZombieNemesisAug. 28, 2014 - 11:54AM JST

Thanks. Your comment is very informative.