Boll Weevil
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It's been a notable sweetcorn season and still right'much left to pick (whatever the critters don't get).
3rd haul like this
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Wrangler95
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Nice,got any coons?
Boll Weevil
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Yes and as typical, it's simply a race against them and deer from here on out. We get what we get and they get what they get and that's it. Parents (retired) pick about every 3-4 days.
It is amazing how tasty corn is when it just picked. Still good later but the sugars start converting to starches as soon as it is picked so it loses a little sweetness over time. I could grow some where I previously lived but don't have the place for it now.
Chapman
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Dumb question about coons. What do they do when they damage the corn? Do they pull the ear off and eat it on the ground or eat it on the stalk? Do they ruin the whole ear or can part of it be salvaged?
All of the above.
Trapper
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That what coons can do to a field.
Chapman
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That's a lot of damage. I would have thought it was deer to mess up that much.
Trapper
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Coons will climb up the stocks and break them over . Beaver will haul them off back to the water and you will think someone is in there cutting it off.
Chapman
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Wow, never knew about beaver damage also.
backyardtndeer
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Nice haul. Had issues with coons this year in our corn, even with electric fence around the garden and the dog in the yard. Dog couldn't get to them though, they came through from the other side through our pasture. We hadn't had issues with them since I had been running wire around the garden, until this year. They wanted that sweet corn bad.
