Baby Corn?

Maybe you can ask cnpower on the inner-mail here, to answer this publicly. He's usually a helpful and resourceful fella.

Ask the son of the Jolly Green Giant?

From Wikipedia:

Baby corn is a vegetable taken from standard maize (corn) plants harvested early, while the ears are very small and immature. Baby corn ears are hand-picked as soon as corn silks emerge from the ear tips or a few days after. Corn matures very quickly, so a baby corn harvest has to be carefully timed to avoid ending up with normal corn ears.

My comment as a farmer:

My guess is that there is very little baby corn production in the US due to labor costs. You would have to stay right with this crop, in order to harvest it at the right stage and then you have to husk each ear. This crop is clearly very labor intensive.

I was assuming that it was grown on small farms that have little tractors, harvesters, and dolls for scarecrows.

On the other hand, this does not take into account, the famed Bonsai corn plantations legendary in Japan. I believe it's a family tradition.

oh, I dont familiar with the crop, I know only that it somewhat differnt from mature corn, maybe just like post#3 said, its shape of corn emerge.

as it has to be picked by hands, so it was planted in China other than in america. because chinese famers need lower salary than american workers.

thats why export to america. although corn and wheat are the main plants area in america.

these can food can eat without worry about. if it really come from china through formal business way.

I tend to somehow remember that miniature corn, is a specie, nature to the Andes, South America. Maybe I'm wrong, but this somehow stuck in my head.

I really dont know the products, althiugh i stayed in country for sometimes. maybe I misunderstand the term.

In china, we plant a kind of corn which issweet type and sell in supermarket, not cheap!, one can sell up to 2--3RMB, youngers like it and eat on the street while they are walking and talking and laughing (1usd=7.78rmb now)

it must be business benefit make america import something from China, or southeast asia. becasue the people in the area has lower paid. and businessman can earn more benefite from the trade.

its nature. if the products plant or prodduce in america, there will be more expensive and customers even cannt afford them.

Our chinese ouptut the low price agriculture products and primary products to your america and europe, but we imort many expensive hitech products from your countries, like computer hardware, instruments, aeroplane, machinetools etc.

btw, there are lots of your israel agricultural specialists in China to help us to improve plants, vegetables etc. now there are lots of new vegetabel in supermarketwhich is planted under help of them. very good like and delicious

Also, during the last ten years or so, you can find in Israel what we call "Chinese Orange" which is a miniature (15 mm) round orange, which you eat whole (with the orange cover) and it has become very popular treat.