Olathe corn should be hitting stores soon
The Denver Post

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The sweet corn harvest began in Olathe on Wednesday, which means one of the Western Slope’s sweetest delicacies will soon be in farmers markets and grocery vegetable bins in Colorado, and in markets as far away as Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Texas and Washington.
This year’s harvest is sizing up to about 550,000 cases of corn that each contain 48 ears, said John Harold, owner of the 1,300-acre Tuxedo Corn Co. farm. He has been been growing corn for 28 years.
He said this year’s quirky weather moved the harvest up two days earlier than last year.
“Temperatures rose and fell from 45 to 35 degrees within a 24-hour period, and cooler nights and warmer days helped contribute to the growth and sweetness,” Harold said. “The weather turned around good, and the market’s great.”
Harold sells his corn to Kroger, owner of King Soopers and City Market chains.
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