One of my favorite summer pleasures

[Stan Hillis]

I grow 8 rows of sweet corn about 700' long each year and give the majority of it away. Farming like I do for a living it's easy to have the "patch". When we're planting field corn under the pivot irrigation systems we just pause at one of them and empty out the filed corn seed out of the eight row planter and pour in about 5 lbs. of Obsession sweet corn seed. It gets heavily fertilized and irrigated so it makes thousands of ears.

Obsession variety is extremely expensive as it is a GMO variety that resists corn earworms and can be over sprayed with glyphosate. It is a yellow and white mingled variety. All our friends and family invariably say it is the best tasting sweet corn they've ever eaten. It costs us $400 for a 10 lb. bag. We plant 5 lbs. one spring then put the rest of the bag in cold storage until the next year. It keeps fine for a year like that.

Ours is just about picked over now and what's left is probably getting too hard to eat. Speaking of eating . . . . I like to take the shucked and silked ear and smear room temperature butter all over it, salt and pepper it, and wrap in two layers of foil, then grill it while the baby back ribs are slow cooking. It'll make a bulldog climb a plate glass window!