how to harvest it, and essential storing tips for storing your homegrown corn. Sweet corn matures in 60 to 100 days, depending on the variety (there is early, mid-season, and late-season sweet corn).

“That was old school, when corn varieties weren’t as good as they are today,” Richard says, happily harvesting corn in the snow near Fargo, N.D. Nearly half of North Dakota’s corn crop was ...