What Are Fields Of Sweetcorn Used For?

[yorkshirelass]

Walking my dogs in the fields around here, I noticed that the sweetcorn.was harvested over the week just leaving stalks about 1 foot high. What are the whole plants used for , animal feed or sweetcorn for human beings ? Is a combine harvester used to harvest the 6 foot tall plants ?

[Mamyalynne]

From last year on Maize in general

http://www.countryfile.com/countryfile-tv-show/countryfile-presenters/adam-henson-rise-maize-uk

[EcclesCake]

Fodder.

[yorkshirelass]

Thanks for those 2 answers, I'd still like to know if the whole plant gets used and how on earth does a combine get all the 6 foot plus plants up. Do they have to use a chipper first ?

[Mamyalynne]

http://thefarmerslife.com/farmers-harvest-corn/

[DTCwordfan]

the stalks could be a potential valuable source for making ethanol for adding to petrol and, as such, this is quite an interesting near CO2 neutral source.

[emeritus]

http://thefarmerslife.com/farmers-harvest-corn/

[emeritus]

sorry ignore that ...Wrong Crop !!

[Mamyalynne]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Harvesting

[yorkshirelass]

Thanks everyone, really interesting information>

[jourdain2]

Same type of corn (I think, from description) used to be drown around us in France - it was used for oil. A special harvester with huge-diameter wheels is used to harvest (a neighbour nearly lost his arm in one!).

[Mamyalynne]

Ta :-)

[Prudie]

There has been a lot grown round me this year and I was told it was just used for oil production.