2010 AMOUNTS
5.75 Tons Given Away With Husks On. 21.52 Tons Shucked. Grand Total 27.27 Tons! Now that’s Amaizing!
At Merschman Seeds As Soon As The Truck Arrives & Is Unloaded. Approximately 4:00 p.m.
SOME FACTS ABOUT OUR SWEET CORN!
WEST POINT SWEET CORN FESTIVAL 2010 – The sweet corn for the West Point Sweet Corn Festival typically comes from Southern Wisconsin or Northern Illinois. Since warmer temperatures will accelerate maturity, we usually do not know exactly where we will get the corn from until a few days or maybe a day before the shuck date. Typically the sweet corn will come from a different source every year.
There are two types of corn, sugar enhanced and super sweet. Most always we get super sweet. It makes the best festival corn. In 2010 the corn came from Northern Illinois.
In 2010 there were about 2500 ears per ton and we typically bring in up to 18 ton. That is 45,000 ears of free sweet corn. In 2009 all the shucking was completed in about 1 hour 15 minutes. That is about 600 ears per minute. In 2010 we exceeded 700 ears per minute.
Although not official, it is a widely known fact that West Point, Iowa holds the record for the fastest shucking festival town.
Various local businesses truck the corn, cool and store the corn, provide food and drink for the shuckers and lastly, local people set up, husk and clean up afterwards. It is a true community event. – information submitted by Merschman Seeds.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
Merschman Seed’s makes arrangements for the delivery of our sweet corn and pays for the trucking every year for the sweet corn to be delivered to us for our Festival. Two Rivers Bank & Trust prepares and serves the food for us during Shuckfest and they hand out specially made T-shirts as prizes throughout the day. Along with all of this, the people that work at both of these fine companies spend every year planning for and working at Shuckfest to make sure The Sweet Corn Festival gets off to a good start.
