That’s amazing to me all that you get done in a day’s time.
We are strictly manual for all our gardening stuff. No tractor or anything like that. Hubby told me that he planted 168 corn seeds per bed in the corn patch. We have 3 beds - That’s over 500 plants.
I’m going to have to double check that figure tomorrow - if I understood it right, we are going to need a bigger freezer!
He got the seeds from the local feed store. Peaches and Cream. He did not verify that they are not GMO.
Just asked for the most popular corn variety.
Peaches and Cream is a regular hybrid, not GMO, so far as I know.
In the case of corn, as I understand it GMO is merely swapping known desirable corn genes between varieties, in place of known unwanted genes. It is a shortcut for regular hybridization, without having to do multigenerational crossings and selecting...then still ending up with unwanted characteristics of one or both parents.
It also saves untold work every year in the growing of seed, because the detasseling and other isolation work needed to produce ‘true’ hybrid seed is removed.
And, without the alternating rows of the chosen parents (the pollen donors will be self pollinated, so not used as the new seed), all of the seed will be true, so a lot of space, water, and fertilizer is saved for producing the same amount of seed.
It’s not “frankenfood”.