In Western Kentucky a cooperative has begun promoting sweet corn to farmers
with some success. 1300 acres were grown last year. This year a voluntary
acreage reduction to 750 was suggested by the marketing agent to prevent the
kind of oversupply seen in 2001.
I asked at the cooperative meeting last night about organic sweet corn. The
response could not have been worse. The growers had to spray insecticide every
12 hours during the last week of the growing season last year. How could
organic sweet corn survive if it couldn't get the insecticide?