Hello Hive
We are live on the farm this morning to pluck off some of the dried ears of our corn. Just last week we had some animals invade the farm, in which they trampled on a lot of the maturing corn. Been trampled upon, these corn could continue maturing but dried off instead. Rather than abandoning them to get spoiled, we decided to get those ones harvested.
The corn grown in this area during the dry seasons is usually for direct consumption with no processing. Those are the corn you see our mothers roast and sell by the roadside. Eating roasted corn 🌽 is something everyone finds pleasurable and a direct meal for people.
Harvesting of the other green, maturing corns should start by the coming week or next, and they will all be sold at the market to retailers that will roast and resell to community people.
I can't compare prices yet until the corns are eventually sold. The only cost of growing this corn is the amount used to purchase the diesel for pumping the crops. There was no extra cost of leasing land or purchasing fertilizer like we often do with crops planted on other locations. If the corns are eventually sold at a good price, then luck is certainly on our side.
The dried harvested corn here cannot be roasted; instead, what we are picking today will be properly sundried and processed into flour and any other cornmeal. This animal invasion often causes lots of losses to farmlands here, and even till now we are yet to get a permanent solution.
The other cassava I planted for commercial purposes on some much larger acre of land has long been invaded by cows. The drugs are out; the growing tubers are for their animals. Ever since then I haven't visited that farm to see the level of damage or if there were anything left there. A lot of money was spent growing those crops, and thinking about the losses alone makes me feel frustrated and not desiring to check on the farm.
In the meantime, we are here getting busy with work. The sun's temperature is usually very high these days, such that the sun could get as high as 34 degrees or even more, and whenever we have work to do, we prefer to visit the farm much earlier to get our task done before the temperatures get higher.
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