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Posted By Katie On October 25, 2010 2 Comments

What Do We Teach Our Kids About Corn?

Filed Under: America's Farm Table, Family Values Tagged With: agriculture, family, family farm, farming 2 Comments

The private blog setting is not working well for me. I have 47 private blog readers and if we need to go private again those readers will continue to access the blog with their log-in. I am not sure what the future of the Pinke Post fully entails but for today we are public.

The girls discovered a glorious corn field this weekend.
 I have a lot of opinions about corn.
But as a mother what is it that I want our kids to know about corn?
 I want them to know that a corn field is a fun place to play and that corn is raised on our family farm. 
I want them to know that corn is safe just like the wheat, barley, soybeans, pinto beans and canola my family has raised for five generations on the same North Dakota farm land. 
I want them to know about the animals on our farm that eat corn. 
I want them to know about the habitat the corn provides for the wildlife on our family farm. 
I want them to know that the world needs corn and demands corn. 
In order to feed an additional 3 billion people in the world over the next four decades, I want our kids to know that our family farm plays a role in feeding the world and that corn helps do just that…feed the world.
Maybe our 13 year old son understands a few of the concepts I want him to learn about corn. But mostly this weekend he was most focused on the geese, grouse and ducks in the corn that he wanted to hunt.
And our 2 year old and 1 year old daughters?
What do they really know about corn?
Our girls know that if they bring back a cob or two from the field to their favorite horse, they make her really happy. 
A little corn makes a horse happy, just like a booming corn crop makes everyone at GriggsDakota happy.
If you have not thanked a farmer for corn today, please do.
Thanking farmers will be one more thing I’ll teach our kids, someday, after we are done feeding corn cobs to horses.

What do you know about corn farming? What do you want to know?
Or do you just want to go play in a corn field like we did this weekend?

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  1. Staci says

    October 25, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    I just so happen to know and love many corn farmers. My dad, my uncles and my grandpa. On our family farm we used to grow wheat, barley, sunflowers, beets, corn, and all the beans, but lately they grow, sunflowers, all the beans and mostly corn. I love to go home to the family farm. . .brings back great memories.

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  2. Katie B says

    October 25, 2010 at 9:38 pm

    love it…I want to learn more..teach me! Got the box of goodies today…such a blessing…it was like christmas…thank you!

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