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Our Community, Our News
AUGUST 8, 2013
Vol. 7 No. 4
HOW SWEET IT IS!
Despite slow start, sweet corn crop this year is ‘fantastic’ By Suzanne Baker Enterprise reporter
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It’s easy to grab fresh sweet corn in Plainfield. Farmers in and around Plainfield pick sweet corn early in the morning so the ears are
his year’s sweet corn crop has farmers grinning ear to ear. “We are seeing phenomenal yields,” said Frank Keller, owner of Keller’s Farmstand in Plainfield, Oswego and Naperville. Likewise, Zach Siegel of Siegel’s Cottonwood Farm in Crest Hill says his family is harvesting a bumper crop this summer from the 70 acres dedicated to sweet corn of the 400 total acres of corn. Phenomenal and bumper were not exactly words farmers See SWEET, page 3