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Open pollinated corn has nutritional advantages

Open pollinated corn has nutritional advantages

With the sky-high price of seed corn, southeastern Minnesota organic dairy farmer Stanley Smith figured somebody had to do something. “I never thought I would be paying $200 for a bag of seed corn; but yes, last year ordering my seed, the cost for 80,000 seeds, or about 42 pounds, was $235,” he said. So, Smith decided to be the “somebody” who should do something.

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