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Potential option for corn growers being tested for adaptation at Menoken Farm

Sue Roesler
May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025

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A Cows and Covers event in August 2024 showcasing open-pollinated corn grown at Menoken Farm. The event in 2025 will be on the seventh of August.

Everybody pitches in to hand-select corn

Menoken Farm employees and their family members hand-selected seeds from open-pollinated corn last fall.

Open-pollinated corn was harvested, ground, and put into small paper bags as corn meal and given to those who attended a garden event at Menoken Farm.

They could use it to make Johnny Cake.

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Sue Roesler

MENOKEN, N.D. – Open-pollinated corn, with its long ears of yellow, red or orange tinted kernels, was grown and harvested for the first time last year at Menoken Farm, a conservation demonstration farm owned and operated by the Burleigh County Soil Conservation District in Menoken, N.D.

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