Round up ready corn

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We had to sign off for the beans and corn that we would be sure and tell all of you when you got either or that you could not use it for anything but wildlife. You are not to use it for any commercial reason. I dont recall anything about having to destroy it, if you didn't use it, as long as you used it for wildlife the following year. I will have to go dig up the form.

Corn this year? I was told there wasn’t a big enough order to get corn through the Florence chapter

[Silentweapon338]

Corn this year? I was told there wasn’t a big enough order to get corn through the Florence chapter

There was not, but in order to even get the thing rolling we had to acknowledge, sign we would tell you all when you picked it up what I said. That was different this year. Normally they put it in the emails, and I think I read it once or twice in those, but I'm the Florence local. My self and the Columbia local had to acknowledge we would tell you all that it could only be used for wildlife purposes. No commercial ag.

I guess it was the economy, but we barely got enough orders to fill out 1 bean order. You have to have 400 bags to make a pallet. You can only order in numbers of 400. They have to be 400 of the corn, beans, sorghum. We can not mix and match. We had to put Florence and Columbia together to get 1 order this year with beans. Last year I had right at 1500 bags alone. Columbia had 700? I cant remember seems like we had 2100 between the 2 of us. We had to cut back on the actual order because the shipper did not want to haul that much weight or bulk. I dont recall, exactly how it went down. But we had to cut the order so I just ate that extra 100. The order was already in paid and all and going through when we found out they wouldn't ship it. We tried to get them to ship 2 trucks and they wouldn't do that. I had ordered 100 bags for those that found out about the program after the fact or needed a extra bag or 2, and just lost those instead of trying to refund people & had to go buy my beans at reg cost. Some folks were nice enough they donated a bag or 2 back to me. Actually made me believe in humanity. That actually worked out perfect for those needing a extra bag or so.

Everyone I spoke with had great germination rates. So it wasn't that.

As far as corn we couldn't make it last year either. We almost made the sorghum last year. I dont even think we had over 50 bags ordered this year? I can go back and look but seems like corn had 225 roughly between Columbia and Florence, this year. We would not have made the order this year except originally I bought up the remaining 90 bags to fill out the 400 bag order. Then QDMA or NDA what ever they are now gave the folks the option to convert the corn into beans. So that took the load off of me.

I hope we can get it rolling again like last year.