CORN

The company VALENTINE HOLDINGS INVESTMENT LLC., the type of Corn is classified as sweet, pop, flour, silage, or feed corn, depending on the type of carbohydrate stored in the ear. Sweet corn gets its name because certain genes prevent or slow the normal conversion of sugar to starch during kernel development. In addition to the various sugar types, sweet corn cultivars differ in kernel color (yellow, white, and bicolor) and maturation times-early (less than seventy days), midseason (seventy-eighty-four days), and late (more than eighty-four days). Certain sweet corn types should be planted at least 500 feet from others or have a difference in silking date of at least 12 days because pollination by other corn types will produce starchy kernels.